David Schweikert: “Thank you, Madam Speaker. I promise I will not take the whole 60 minutes, because I know many folks have flights to get…”

“Thank you, Madam Speaker. I promise I will not take the whole 60 minutes, because I know many folks have flights to get to. Madam Speaker, one of the reasons I'm here--and we are also working on some additional, shall we say, display items for maybe next week. Maybe I'm out of my mind, but this last couple of weeks I've been actually reading from top to bottom, beginning to end, the Medicare trustees' Federal hospital insurance and Federal supplemental medical insurance trust fund actuarial report for 2011. It's actually more interesting than you would think, because you go through about 270 pages, lots of great information, not that hard to read, so anyone that's actually watching this, I strongly suggest, if you have the stomach for it and you really need a little help in falling asleep, this might be the occasion. Google it, take it off the Internet, but do this for me: This is one of those occasions I'm going to ask you to go to the very end of the report and start with the last three pages, because that's what I'm standing here to talk about is you have a report that basically gives a window of a dozen-some years of actuarial soundness, but when you get to the last three pages, it basically says something like Roseannadanna, that character from Saturday Night Live from 20 years ago: ``Never mind.'' I brought a couple of the boards we already had printed up to sort of demonstrate what's going on, and then I wanted to talk about this.…”