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Pelosi, Reid to Hold Closed-Door Meetings to Decide Final Bill…
- November 2007: “We are going to have a big table, and everybody is going to be invited, labor, employers, doctors, nurses, hospital administrators, patient advocate groups. The drug and insurance companies, they’ll all get a seat at the table. … And we will work on this process publicly. It’ll be on C-SPAN. It will be streaming over the Net.” (Town hall meeting with Google employees, Mountain View, CA, 11/14/07)
- January 2008: “That’s what I will do in bringing all parties together, not negotiating behind closed doors, but bringing all parties together, and broadcasting those negotiations on C-SPAN so that the American people can see what the choices are.” (Democratic presidential debate, 1/31/08)
- March 2008: “But here’s the difference: I’m going to do it all on C-SPAN so that the American people will know what’s going on.” (Town hall meeting, Lancaster, PA, 3/31/08)
- August 2008: “When I come together around this health care system, I’m going to do it all in the open. I’m going to do it on C-SPAN.” (Town hall meeting, Albuquerque, NM, 8/18/08)
