Question about last nights speech.

[RDANGELO]

Some of the Republicans were holding up what looked like some booklet. Does anyone know what that was?

[derby378]

1. Some of them were holding up their own health care bills

As for the pamphlets with blue ink, I draw a blank.

[Emit]

2. GOP plans quiet demonstration during president's speech

GOP plans quiet demonstration during president's speech
By: Byron York
Chief Political Correspondent
09/09/09 5:57 PM EDT

Tonight some House Republicans are planning to attend the president's address to a joint session of Congress carrying copies of GOP health care bills. If the president says, as he has done on many previous occasions, that opponents of Democratic health care proposals have no plans of their own, those Republicans plan to hold up copies of their bills in protest.

"If the president decides again that he is going to assert that there is no plan on our side, we're going to show him that's not true," says one GOP aide.

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http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/GOP-lawmakers-considering-protest-at-tonights-Obama-speech-58179727.html