Brooks in D.C. for Obama bill signing

 Tarrant County Commissioner Roy Brooks was among those in Washington D.C. Tuesday applauding President Barack Obama’s signing of a landmark healthcare reform bill.

Brooks learned Monday he was invited to attend a gathering of local, state and federal officials to celebrate the signing at an auditorium in the Department of the Interior building. He dropped everything to catch a plane later that night.

Brooks said he was invited for his work on a healthcare reform committee with the National Association of Counties.

Brooks and others watched via a TV feed as Obama signed the bill. After the White House ceremony, Obama and Vice President Joe Biden stopped by the Interior to address those in attendance.

Brooks, a Democrat, said the bill was an important first step in a larger drive to reform healthcare.

"We recognize this is only the start," Brooks said. "There will be other efforts to improve and tweak this bill once the American public gets used to the concept of healthcare reform and see that it’s not the bogeyman it’s been presented to be. Then there will be impetus to do other things in that regard."

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Comments

[MSMcGuire]

Brooks . . . I hope while you dropped everything to go party with Obama that you paid your own way . . .

Geeeeze - What was I thinking! Nevermind, you are a Democrat. Everyone else pays your way . . .

I converted to Democrat this morning when I quit my job to stay home and be an artist . . . it is hard getting used to - you know, not worrying about having to pay for my own stuff! Obama will pay for whatever I need!

I love being a Democrat! It is awesome! Maybe Obama needs me to be on a committee . . . I have never been to Washington DC!

[Rev. Loush M. O'Raven]

the so called health care reform is a communist document, and the fact that it was even considered seriously in the house is sad. why is it my job to pay for someone else's health care? i don't ask anyone to pay for mine. why should we be forced to buy insurance for a form of medicine that we don't need and will never use? i don't believe in western medicine, so why should i be forced to buy insurance for it? and since i have no real money to speak of, i guess i will be setting in jail for not buying health insurance. and if i did have the money to buy it i still wouldn't! lets vote this guy brooks out of office! and lets impeach obama while we are at it!
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