WASHINGTON, D.C. - Montana's Congressman, Denny Rehberg, today voted in support of the Republican alternative health care reform bill which he helped craft using the input he received at 18 listening sessions and countless constituent meetings. The House of Representatives instead adopted Speaker Pelosi's trillion dollar government takeover of health care.  Rehberg voted against Pelosi's bill.

"Once again, House Democrats put their Party ahead of doing the best thing for our country. Instead of immediate and targeted reform to fix the national health care crisis, Americans will get 118 new federal bureaucracies and a solution that doesn't even go into effect until 2013. Now we must hope that any Senate action will be more reflective of the folks I heard from at 18 listening sessions around Montana."