Posted on 09/03/2009 2:15:19 PM PDT by GrootheWanderer
When Congress returns from its August break next week, health care reform will once again be at the top of its agenda, said Rep. Nathan Deal, R-Gainesville.
A Democratic health care bill passed three different House of Representatives committees before Congress recessed in July. Deal, who is running for governor next year, told a town hall meeting on Wednesday at the Northwest Georgia Trade and Convention Center that the next step would normally be for the House Rules Committee to reconcile any differences among the three versions of the bill, then send it to the floor for a full vote. But Deal says that likely won’t happen.
“The landscape on this issue has changed radically (since Congress left Washington),” he said.
There were no fireworks Wednesday from the crowd of about 300, but Deal said raucous town hall meetings across the country have shown his colleagues that many people are concerned, frightened and angry about many of the health care proposals being talked about in Washington.
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