Tom Price: “I want to take these few short moments and bring a little more positive perspective, a brighter outlook, and hopefully a…”

“I want to take these few short moments and bring a little more positive perspective, a brighter outlook, and hopefully a little more unifying message than we have just heard and, frankly, than we often hear in the United States House Chamber, especially by some of my good friends from the other side of the aisle. We call this the Official Truth Squad. I thank the leadership and the conference for allowing me to come and share a few words tonight. The Official Truth Squad grew out of a frustration on the part of the freshmen class of the Republican Conference. We all were elected in 2004, 24 strong, now 26 of us here in the United States House of Representatives. After a relatively few number of months, we grew frustrated with the fact that there was a lot of misinformation and a lot of distortion and a lot of frankly deception that was going on here. And so what we wanted to do was to put together a group of folks that would come to the House floor and try as best we could to provide some truth, some facts to the situations that we address here in the United States House of Representatives. We have just gotten back, Mr. Speaker, from a week at home, a district work period, over the Memorial Day week. I heard from constituent after constituent about two big issues. One was illegal immigration, obviously the largest issue we have to deal with as a Nation right now.…”