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		<title>Barney Frank Town Hall</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everybody has seen this already, but for my own records here are video clips of Representative Barney Frank, Chairman of the Financial Services Committee, at a town hall meeting where he holds his own against some attendees unhappy about health care reform. After the first video completes, a second automatically loads and is also worth [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Everybody has seen this already, but for my own records <a title="Barney Frank goes toe to toe at health care town hall" href="http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/08/18/frank.heath.care/index.html#cnnSTCVideo" target="_self">here are video clips</a> of Representative Barney Frank, <span lang="en-us">Chairman of the Financial Services Committee, at a town hall meeting where he holds his own against some attendees unhappy about health care reform. After the first video completes, a second automatically loads and is also worth watching.<br />
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<p><span lang="en-us">The first video sets the tone, but I particularly enjoyed Rep. Frank&#8217;s handling of the exchange about illegal immigrants and their status in the bill:</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span lang="en-us">Frank: Illegal aliens are specifically excluded from getting any assistance in the bill. Section&#8230;<br />
<em>Mob boos. Somewhere in the exchange some people yell, &#8220;read the bill!&#8221;</em><br />
<em>Frank then finds the section of the bill and reads it.</em><br />
Frank: It&#8217;s right in the bill. I will be glad to show it to you.</span></p>
<p><span lang="en-us">Some people apparently refused to believe the bill itself, and Frank responds with this zinger:</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span lang="en-us">It is a little odd to be accused of not having read the bill by people who object when I do.<br />
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