Please. Mr. DeFAZIO. The one other thing, since the Republicans seem to want to roll back the clock, are they are going to bring back the doughnut hole. Now, the doughnut hole is this bizarre construct of the Republican prescription drug…

I don't think so. It seems to me to be the path to poverty for seniors. And it goes way, way beyond that. Our colleague from Texas, Sheila Jackson Lee, has joined us. Ms. Lee, if you would care to comment. I know this is an issue you are…

Well, we seriously question the morality of the proposal that's being put forward by the Republican caucus. You said something that I want to focus in on. The details are important. We talked about Medicare and the end of Medicare as we…

I am going to take this down because I know that the American public, whether they are seniors now or will be seniors in the future, understand the incredible importance of Medicare to the American society. Whether you are young or old…

Two hours ago, the Republicans in this House passed, without Democratic support, a continuing resolution for a while, and there were cuts in those. For the most part, there was no debate here on the floor about specific cuts, but you…

You have raised a couple of issues, and I would like to carry them a little further. You raised the tax issue, in the proposed budget, not the CR today that funded the government for another week but rather in the proposal for the next…

Thank you very much, Mr. Ryan. I will first yield to the gentleman from Colorado, and then we are going to wrap this thing up, and I want to wrap it up on one of our major themes, that's rebuilding the great American manufacturing sector.

It also speaks to the fact that the Democrats are willing to put up shared sacrifice on both sides. I want to just wrap up with this, and every time I come to the floor I want to make it clear that we need to rebuild the American…

Thank you very much, Mr. DeFazio. I heard you toss out two numbers. One number was the amount of medical, the percentage of the costs of medical care that seniors now pay. Did you say 28 percent? Mr. DeFAZIO. It's about 25 percent on…

If the Republican proposal goes forward, seniors will wind up paying how much? Mr. DeFAZIO. Sixty-eight percent of their health care costs. {time} 1530

The Republican budget proposal put out yesterday calls for a tax decrease for that 0.1 percent from 35 percent to 25 percent.

We intend tonight to talk about the deficit, solutions to the deficit, where it came from and what can be done about it in the context of creating jobs here in America. But before we get into that, we just heard a whole hour of talk that…