Rep. Wilson Apologizes for Outburst, As Fallout Continues

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By Ann Gerhart and Philip Rucker
Washington Post Staff Writers
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/10/AR2009091002051_pf.html

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Wilson apologized for his outburst in a statement released shortly after the prime-time speech to Congress concluded Wednesday night, saying that he was overcome with emotion. But reporters eager for a firsthand accounting from the congressman staked out his office Thursday.

When Wilson emerged on his way to a vote, he elaborated on his statement, saying that he had "heard from the (Republican) leadership that they wanted me to contact the White House and state that my statements were inappropriate. I did."

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Despite many claims to the contrary by opponents of the universal health care proposals, fact-checkers have repeatedly established that the bills' universal coverage provisions would not extend to illegal immigrants. In Section 246 on page 143, the House's bill states that "undocumented aliens" will not be eligible for credits to help them buy health insurance -- and these credits are the provision that lies at the heart of expanding coverage to the uninsured. And Medicaid already is limited to those who can prove legal residency. For that matter, even the universal health care program in Massachusetts -- one of the most liberal states in the country -- does not cover illegal immigrants.

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In 2002, during a C-SPAN discussion about Iraq's capabilities for nuclear and biological weapons, Wilson attacked Rep. Bob Filner (D-Calif.) as harboring "hatred of America" at least four times when Filner suggested Saddam Hussein may have obtained some technologies from the United States.

In 2003, when The Washington Post persuaded Essie Mae Washington-Wilson to publicly identify herself as the biracial daughter of Thurmond, who once had been an avowed segregationist, Wilson accused the woman of trying to "smear" the senator, who had died six months earlier.

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When the Thurmond family acknowledged that Washington-Wilson was indeed Thurmond's daughter, Wilson apologized but did not back down from his assertion that she should have kept quiet.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. $420,000 in less than a day.

that's how Americans, REAL AMERICANS respond to GOP trash talk. That is what Miller is facing in the next election.

Hey hey!

[sarge43]

2. Ooops, that money is free speech thang cuts both ways. Sweet. n/t