Congressman Price should have brought bill with him

TO THE EDITOR:

Most agree a Congressman should be well-prepared for a town hall meeting with their constituents on health care reform. However, U.S. Rep. David Price, D-N.C., fell short of such preparation on Sept. 2. In fact, the Congressman had the audacity to conduct a town hall at UNC without a copy of the very bill which he so adamantly supports and claims to be so knowledgeable of.

Congressman, I know the thousand-page bill is heavy and may even strain your back at times, but please, for the sake of the people, bring the bill with you next time. I get tired of the same old excuse that you make so often, “I don’t have the bill in front of me right now, but I will have someone contact you about that.” At this point, I am starting to believe you just don’t want to answer my questions.

With a $1,042,000,000,000 piece of health care legislation, does it not seem prudent for our Congressmen to have the bill with them at a health care town hall?

At a hefty $1 billion a page, I expect my congressman to be readily able to cite provisions in the bill which answer my questions.

For those who would defend the practice of blindly supporting something, I take it you are probably the same people who ignore the Congressional Budget Office reports projecting our national deficit to increase drastically due to the Obama administration’s reckless spending habits.

Change we can all believe in? I think not!


Kendall Law
Junior
Business Administration