Pete Stark: “Reclaiming my time, if I may respond, the gentleman makes a very good point. These particular bills are brought to the…”

“Reclaiming my time, if I may respond, the gentleman makes a very good point. These particular bills are brought to the floor under a euphemism referred to as ``correction day.'' Now, I think we need a correction week. As a matter of fact, for some folks we might need a correctional institution. The fact we are ignoring this piddling little data bank, which somebody had to fuss around to find to make into a bill to bring to the floor today, is not the important issue. Data banks contain tremendous amounts of information. They contain information, for example, on quality in hospitals. A nonpartisan group of experts the other day, PROPAC, said that maintaining updates as low as the Republicans would do in their Medicare bill would have a severe impact on hospitals.”