Apparently, people were buzzing about this Vietnamese-American Republican Representative from Louisiana, and that's how I went on to read about him. I didn't think much about him when I saw that he was the lone Republican to cast his vote for health care reform, but other people were obviously much more curious as to what sort of person would dare defy the Republican Party. Funny enough, as soon as I started searching for more about him, a Politico article from Yahoo! popped up to satiate my curiosity.
By all accounts, he seems to be an enthusiastic, hard-working, intelligent man who cast the vote for the people of his district, which is majority Democratic. Republicans probably hate him now, but he's a hero to Democrats for making their health care bill "bipartisan". Instead of just saying "no" to oppose the Democrats as the rest of the Republicans did -- the moniker "Party of No" might just be apt after all -- he found a reason to say "yes". He got the concession that the new health care reform would not expand abortion coverage. He didn't compromise his principles but got them heard and carried out.
For taking the road less traveled and helping pass health care reform, I praise him.
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