Rep. Kingston Skews Health Care Comments By Speaker Pelosi
During a floor speech on March 16, 2010, Rep. Jack Kingston (R-GA) displayed a poster highlighting an out-of-context partial quote from Speaker Nancy Pelosi saying "we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it." Despite rightwing efforts to skew her remarks, the entirety of Pelosi's remarks shows she was simply condemning the large amount of conservative misinformation surrounding the health care debate.
Rep. Kingston Mischaracterizes Speaker Pelosi's Comments
Rep. Kingston Today On The House Floor:
[Kingston Floor Speech, 3/16/10]
Rep. Kingston Mischaracterizes Speaker Pelosi's Comments
As Media Matters Action Network has previously noted, the right's efforts to skew the Speaker's comments are brazenly deceitful. Read in context, her quote is harmless.
Speaker Pelosi's Full Quote Is Harmless. During her address to the 2010 Legislative Conference for the National Association of Counties, Speaker Nancy Pelosi said:
You've heard about the controversies within the bill, the process about the bill, one or the other. But I don't know if you have heard that it is legislation for the future, not just about health care for America, but about a healthier America, where preventive care is not something that you have to pay a deductible for or out of pocket. Prevention, prevention, prevention-it's about diet, not diabetes. It's going to be very, very exciting. But we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy. [Speaker.gov, 3/9/10; emphasis added]
