Rep. Laura Richardson, D-Long Beach, helped lead the rebuke of Rep. Joe Wilson, the South Carolina Republican who interrupted President Obama's health-care speech by shouting, "You lie!"
The Bloomberg news agency interviews Richardson in this report and explains that she met privately with Democrats after Wilson's outburst and argued that something needed to be done.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi apparently wanted to move on from the remark, but Richardson urged action, according to Bloomberg.
It was "the elephant in the room that we had not dealt with," Richardson said, according to Bloomberg.
free speech guys, he was just speaking the truth