[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 19]
[House]
[Page 26554]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              HEALTH CARE

  (Mr. SCHOCK asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. SCHOCK. Mr. Speaker, last night, I hosted a town hall back in my 
district with over 1,000 of my constituents in attendance. I felt that 
was a better use of my time than was rushing back to this Chamber to 
vote on resolutions honoring dogs.
  The final question of the night last night came from a 9-year-old 
constituent in my district named Joshua who asked me a very simple 
question: Do you support what President Obama wants to do with health 
care?
  I told Joshua that I spent the first 9 months of my term in office 
trying to figure out exactly what it is the President wants to do on 
the issue of health care.
  It is precisely this confusion of goals, of conflicting messages and 
this lack of communication from the majority which has all Americans 
still trying to figure out what exactly the President wants versus the 
Speaker of the House's bill before Congress.
  We need to do this right. It's too important to get it wrong, and 
Republicans, Democrats, Independents, and the American people deserve 
to be in the room.

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