[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 23]
[House]
[Page 31009]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          JOE WILSON WAS RIGHT

  (Mr. SMITH of Texas asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. SMITH of Texas. Mr. Speaker, it has taken months, but there's one 
thing even the national media now acknowledges--Joe Wilson was right. 
Illegal immigrants are covered by the health care bill.
  This week the Associated Press reported that the House health care 
bill, which was the bill under consideration at the time of President 
Obama's speech to Congress and Mr. Wilson's remark, will allow illegal 
immigrants to participate in the government-run and government-funded 
insurance plan. To its credit, CBS News said something similar back in 
September but only on a Web post.
  These articles are few and far between and fairly well hidden from 
public view. They also fail to address the other illegal immigration-
related loopholes in both the House and the Senate bills.
  It's no wonder that only one in 10 Americans now have a great deal of 
faith in the media to report the news fully, accurately, and fairly, 
according to a recent poll.

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