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Speaker Pelosi. If I just may interrupt you, I'll be pleased to answer that at the end, but we have -- and I will...

But let's just stick to the health care, because this is so big and transformational for our country. It's about the competitiveness of our businesses, of course, the security, the personal security of our families -- as Mr. Hoyer mentioned, in terms of the budget impacts of it, and our -- again, for these and many other reasons, we hope you'll have some questions on this subject, and then I'll get back to yours.

Q: Madam Speaker, can you talk about the discussions that you've had with Blue Dog Democrats? And certainly there have been other Democrats who are concerned about the package that has been put forward in draft form. How much have you met with them? And could you say to what -- how confident you are that you're going to be able to get them on board when you actually come to a vote?

Speaker Pelosi. Well, I'll invite my colleagues to join in on this, but welcome to the legislative process. In case you haven't noticed, this is how it works. We work together. I think we started our meetings months ago. The President had his summit -- health summit at the White House, sort of, launched the initiative, and then we've had meetings all along.

In the last few weeks, we've had listening sessions under the leadership of our distinguished whip, Mr. Clyburn. All along, the approach that we have taken, our communication among the chairmen and with the Members has been led by Mr. Hoyer, and our Democratic Caucus has provided us the forum, under the leadership of Mr. Larson and Mr. Becerra, to listen to the concerns of Members.

We've made
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