[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 4]
[House]
[Pages 4592-4593]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           HEALTH CARE REFORM

  (Mr. CRENSHAW asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. CRENSHAW. Mr. Speaker, I think we all know that Sunday night the 
health care bill passed the House, and today it's Tuesday, and there is 
an awful lot of celebrating going on. But I can tell you firsthand that 
a lot of people are not celebrating. In fact, a lot of people are very 
unhappy this bill passed. And I heard from them last night because I 
had one of my regularly scheduled live telephone town hall meetings, 
and at the peak of that town hall meeting, we had almost 8,000 people 
on the call.

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  And I asked the question, Do you feel that your concerns were heard 
by the Democratic leadership before that bill was brought to the House? 
Well, 86 percent of the people said no. And later in that town hall 
call I said, Do you favor or oppose this health care bill? Ninety 
percent of the people on that call said we do not favor that bill.
  And I happen to listen to my constituents. That is why I spoke out 
against this bill, this government takeover. That's why I'm going to 
continue to speak out, and I'm going to work to make a better way.

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