Virginia Foxx: Health Care Reform Greater Threat than Terrorism

A Republican congresswoman said on the House floor today that Americans have more to fear from Democrats' health care reform plans than from terrorists.

"I believe the greatest fear that we all should have to our freedom comes from this room — this very room — and what may happen later this week in terms of a tax increase bill masquerading as a health care bill," said Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.). "I believe we have more to fear from the potential of that bill passing than we do from any terrorist right now in any country."

Foxx said that voters throughout her district tell her they are frightened by the reform proposals.

"What they are talking about is that they fear for our freedoms, and they fear for the principles that formed this country and have always been the basis on which we have operated," she said. "I share that fear."

Meanwhile, House conservatives Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) and Pete Hoekstra (R-Mich.) are organizing a public protest against the Democrats' health care bill. The representatives are asking people to show up at the Capitol building on Thursday, when the House may begin debate on the bill.