Robert Berry: “Mr. Speaker, this rule is a fraud. This bill is a fraud. They have come to the floor and said that they are going to do…”

“Mr. Speaker, this rule is a fraud. This bill is a fraud. They have come to the floor and said that they are going to do something about prescription drugs for our seniors. Not a dime of this money goes to buy any medicine. It goes to the insurance companies. I wondered, as I listened to this debate this evening, if my colleagues on the other side of the aisle have bought into the philosophy of that old philosopher and spiritual leader, Brother Dave Gardner, who said, ``When you get a man down, kick him because it gives him incentive to rise above himself.'' They have got our senior citizens down, and now they want to kick them. The Greatest Generation that lived through the Depression, fought World War II and built this Nation, and now we are going to just kick them one more time. And if we cannot kick them, we are going to trick them and try to make them think that we are going to buy them some prescription medicine. This bill does not buy them anything. Mr. Speaker, this rule should not pass and this bill should not pass because everyone who votes for it is going to have to live forever with the fact that they mistreated our senior citizens, the Greatest Generation one more time.”