[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 19]
[House]
[Page 26052]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          THE HEALTH CARE BILL

  (Mr. BLUMENAUER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. BLUMENAUER. Mr. Speaker, one of the most bizarre assertions from 
some of our Republican friends from the other side of the aisle is that 
there is some massive health bill that's being cooked up in secret, 
that they are being denied knowledge, that they don't know what's going 
on.
  Mr. Speaker, everybody on Capitol Hill who wants to know can find out 
what is in the legislation. They can not just go online, but the news 
accounts, television shows, and trade publications. In fact, yesterday, 
in the Wall Street Journal it was outlined again.
  There are some sticking points yet to be resolved, as those are being 
debated, they're public knowledge. People know about the public option, 
options.
  Indeed, the notion that somehow we could keep a secret in our little 
Capitol Hill village of 5,000 compulsive leakers is laughable. 
Everybody knows that to be the case. If Republicans were still confused 
or couldn't figure it out themselves they could have just listened to 
some of their colleagues who were talking about how they disagreed with 
what was in the bill. They should talk to each other.

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