They want to go to work. They want an invest, grow, and build policy--not a cut, slash, and burn policy, but an invest, grow, and build. They want to invest, as you say, in education. They want their kids to have an education. They want to…

Thank you, Mr. Welch. The gentleman from Colorado (Mr. Perlmutter) has joined us, and directly in front of me is the gentlewoman from Ohio (Ms. Sutton). Let me turn to the gentleman from Colorado first.

Let's just get ourselves into a good discussion here. The great Midwest, Ohio, the industrial center of America, being rebuilt by Betty Sutton. I yield to the gentlelady from Ohio.

And we're going to make it in America. America is going to make it. This is a great, strong country. Yesterday, I heard during the debate that we're broke. We're not broke at all. We've got a deficit problem; we can deal with that with…

Okay, we are going to have our bullet session here. We'll start with Ms. Sutton from Ohio.

We kept hearing from our Republican colleagues that what America needs is a cut, balance--how does that work?

Before we go to this other issue--and we've got another 7 or 8 minutes here--another major program that is targeted by our Republican friends is Medicaid. Medicaid is a program for impoverished Americans. Seventy percent of Medicaid is for…

Mr. Courtney, thank you for pointing out that very, very important fact that seems to have been totally overlooked in today's debate, at least by our Republican colleagues. There is another factor here, and that is that Medicare, like all…

Mr. Courtney just pointed back to me. I was going to pass it to him. We just talked about Big Oil, the subsidies to Big Oil that are being protected by our Republican colleagues, making sure that Big Oil gets their money. That's not the…

Thank you very much, Representative Tonko. Thank you for bringing this issue alive this evening and for giving us this time to discuss this. Many, many thoughts went through my mind today as this vote and the debate went along. As it was…

Americans want jobs. After 200 days of Republican power in this House, not one jobs bill. This cut, slash, and burn legislation will not work. We need an invest, grow, and build strategy. That's what Americans want from Congress. They want…

Representative Tonko, thank you so very much for bringing us together tonight to talk about Medicare and the Republican proposal to terminate Medicare and significantly reduce Medicaid programs for seniors in nursing homes. This is a…