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On the recordMarch 20, 2010
Here we are on the verge of one of the most significant votes that Congress has ever taken. The only time that I can think of which perhaps rivals the importance of this vote has been when we have had to decide to send our Nation's finest young men and women off into the perils of war. And yet it is mind-boggling, literally unconscionable to think that we are about to slap the American people in the face and have the audacity to say, We know better than you. In town meetings, at TEA Party rallies, from emails, faxes, letters, and literally millions of phone calls that have jammed the Capitol switchboard, the voices of America have spoken out, begging, pleading with their elected Representatives, Please, slow down, start over, and do this the right way. Sadly, instead of listening to the American people, the Democrat majority, at least most of them, have chosen to tune the people out, to ignore the angst, the fear, the frustration, and the anger and hope that somehow this will all go away. Let me assure you it will not. This whole process has been an insult. It is an outrage. It is an all-out attack on freedom and liberty, on fiscal responsibility, and on the sanctity of human life.
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Jo Bonner
Alabama
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govinfo.gov
Mar 20, 2010

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Bonner addresses the significance of an upcoming vote and the public's opposition to it.

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