I believe that we need it. We need to save Social Security and Medicare.
I am glad my colleague brought up the Penn Biden Center because I want to ask some more questions about it.
The sheer amount of Chinese donations to the Penn Biden Center was not, that was not normal.
Refusing to enforce the laws that exist on the books, I think it is dereliction of duty.
You know, Social Security is closer, but as you look over time... the increment in Medicare is...
I think the only budget out there that's been really put there to the public would be Biden's, and I think it takes us from 32 trillion in d...
It's shameful that we keep projecting the Bidenomics, the Biden plan, to where we're 52 trillion in debt.
If that's what Bidenomics is about, that's a destiny towards a Chapter 11 for the government someday.
And you do why? Because as little as 30-35 years ago that was 5 to 7 percent of our GDP.
You have less economic growth right when you have higher general tax rates.
I am pleased the subcommittee is considering my legislation H.R. 4225, the VA Acquisition Review Board Act of 2023.
This legislation will provide a structure for those checks and balances.
We need to reform the commercial marketplace. We need reforms to reimbursement. We need pull incentives.