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Just let me stress the point of everyone is concerned about the cost of prescription drugs. I have, as I said, many seniors in Arizona that I am deeply concerned about. My question is: How do we solve the problem, and how do we do it in a…
I hope that the medical profession is aware that this results in a surrendering of their ability to pick the right prescription drug for their patient and a tremendous loss of choice, not just for patients but for doctors and a diminution…
Ultimately, as a medical doctor trying to tailor the best care for your patient, you would be at the mercy of a Federal bureaucrat who would decide which drugs can be used for which purposes. Let me ask this question: let us say someone is…
I think one of the keys that the gentleman just mentioned is we often talk about choice in the abstract. It is important, I think, for people to understand that not only under the Clinton-Gore plan do you make one choice at the outset, you…
As the gentleman understands the proposal being offered by Republicans, one of the key features is choice. That is, we allow people to pick from amongst a variety of plans that meet their own needs; and in addition at least it is my…
It appeared Monday. Both of those stories report that, in fact, the Vice President did make up these facts; the cost of the drug that his mother-in-law allegedly paid, the dosages taken by his mother-in-law versus the dosages taken by his…
I simply want to clarify the intent of the amendment and the language of the amendment, which says the funds simply would not be automatically spent under those conditions. If the Congress wanted to go ahead and make the appropriations to…
I would point out that this still allows these monies to be spent. It requires a straightforward certification that these conditions are met before those monies can be spent. And it is a straightforward attempt to make sure that we protect…
I want to begin this debate by pointing out that 68 percent of all Americans approve of adopting this kind of amendment. And as my colleagues might expect, that support is stronger amongst Republicans than amongst Democrats. Indeed, 75…
I listened to my colleague read the Washington Post editorial this morning, and I understand that the Washington Post thinks that this is a show boat. That is their opinion. They also say it is the view of the minority. The polling data…
I know the gentleman would agree with me that this legislation today, the Republican legislation before us today, takes important steps toward solving these problems, but that there is also agreement on the part of the gentleman and on the…
If the gentleman will yield quickly on that point, there are a lot of people who are my constituents who say Congressman, why just two-thirds? I would rather it was three-fourths or five-sevenths. They want it to be as high a fraction as…
Well, I have had a number of people engage in debate. In Arizona we debated this measure. The opponents of it predicted dire consequences. They said that this was an irresponsible measure, that we should never have a supermajority…
Or to convict a President in impeachment proceedings. If you add those supermajority provisions or requirements that were in our original Constitution with those that have been added to the Constitution by amendment, there are today…
Now we just need to make sure that those Americans who feel like communicating their sentiments, hopefully 75 percent of all Republicans across the country, 63 percent of all Democrats across the country, will call and let their Member of…
What would happen is we would be sending a tremendous signal across this country that we are through reaching into the pockets, at least willy-nilly reaching into the pockets of the American taxpayers. Because if three-fourths of the…
Almost a two-thirds majority of all Democrats across America in a nationwide poll, just short of two-thirds of all Democrats in this country, favor the adoption in America today, hopefully by this vote tomorrow, of a supermajority…
In that poll, there are some surprising numbers. First of all, the overall number says that the vast majority of Americans, Republican or Democrat, Independent, you name it, favor this idea. And 68 percent of all Americans, regardless of…
As the gentleman well knows, you can make the argument, and our colleague in the United States Senate who is carrying this makes the argument that it actually does take in the U.S. Senate a two-thirds majority to cut taxes. Because of the…
Not only have there been no attempts to raise taxes in the Arizona legislature since this measure was adopted, at least no broad-based tax increases, and because we wrote the Arizona measure in a very comprehensive fashion, no increase in…
It does not take a two-thirds vote at the Arizona legislature to cut taxes. It takes a two-thirds vote of the Arizona legislature to raise taxes.
I urge the rejection of the amendment as being an amendment that would set this legislation so far back as to make it nearly meaningless, and I urge the adoption of the bill as proffered by the committee.
He was flunking out and he is borderline genius in repairing and putting computers back together.
He is listed in this book as one of the experts who helped write the test which the Clinton administration will begin to implement next year in America if it can or the year after that if the Congress does not block them.
That is why I think that America would be in open revolt. There would be an outcry across this country if people understood that that kind of parental control of their local school was about to be stolen away by a one-size-fits-all…
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