Lynn C. Woolsey: “AARP's misguided decision to embrace this legislation and sacrifice the future of Medicare must go unchallenged.”

I believe we have complete agreement with the first principle that you have referred to today, and that is that every able-bodied person should be working or preparing to work.

I just want to repeat what I said in my opening remarks. Nothing in the proposed rule would have applied to children working on their parents' family farm. The proposed rule maintains the parental exemption. But again, to remind everybody…

Again, Mr. Speaker, nothing in the proposed rule would have applied to children working on their parents' family farm, and I reserve the balance of my time.

Thank you, George, for doing this. Thank you for honoring those of us that have been here and now are leaving. I arrived feeling very green and feeling very good 20 years ago. I had no idea how little I knew about how to get something done…