[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 3]
[House]
[Pages 3516-3517]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                           HEALTH CARE REFORM

  (Mrs. McMORRIS RODGERS asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. McMORRIS RODGERS. Madam Speaker, America needs health care 
reform, but America knows that this is

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not the right approach. This is the wrong policy and it is the wrong 
process; yet the majority is willing to do everything possible to pass 
this bill, even over the objections of the American people.
  Just recently, CNN had a poll that showed 73 percent of Americans 
across the country would like to scrap the bill or start all over; yet 
now we are being told the Democrat leadership may deem the bill passed 
without Members of Congress even voting on it. That is un-American. It 
ignores the democratic process.
  Madam Speaker, we need an up-or-down vote. If Congress passes this 
bill without even a vote on it, the American people will be outraged, 
and rightfully so. There is a better way. Let's go to work on it.

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