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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)

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