End the confusion, elect new congressman
To the editor:
This past Saturday, I attended a "Congress on the Corner" session held by Congresswoman Niki Tsongas.
The venue was the Billerica Public Library and it was a bit unusual.
Constituents who wished to speak to the congresswoman were collected in the second floor conference room and then ushered, one at a time, into a small room to speak with the Congresswoman and one of her aides.
Each person was allowed three or four minutes in which to express their views and ask questions.
I opined that the congresswoman should hold a better advertised, more open event specifically targeted at the health care debate before any final vote in the House concerning the bill passed by the Senate.
She stated that she was amenable to such an idea. She told me that the vote that would take place this week would be a substantive vote on about one hundred pages of language aimed at reconciling disagreements between the House and Senate bills.
What I was told flies in the face of what has been all over the news this weekend.
White House Spokesman Robert Gibbs has stated that by this time next week the House of Representatives will have passed the Senate version of the bill and the president's health care aspirations will be the law of the land.
I do not believe that Congresswoman Tsongas would deliberately mislead a constituent, but something is certainly amiss. There seems to be a considerable disconnect, and a great deal of confusion within our government.
Due to the apparent lack of understanding and coordination on the parts of Congresswoman Tsongas and the rest of Congress and the executive branch, I have decided to support the candidacy of Jon Golnik in his bid to become the next representative of the 5th Congressional District of Massachusetts. I urge all of my fellow citizens to follow suit.
The time to take back our government, and end the confusion, is now.
I thought the election of Scott Brown in Massachusetts, the bluest of states, would have been understood.
We the people, apparently, need to send a louder message. The addition of some new faces to the House of Representatives will increase the volume of our voice, and perhaps we will be heard more clearly.
Clifford D. Nicholson Jr.
Billerica
