Jared Polis: “Again, I have to disagree with my friend from New York. I have never seen in my 3 years on the Rules Committee such a…”

“Again, I have to disagree with my friend from New York. I have never seen in my 3 years on the Rules Committee such a broad and sweeping deem-and-pass under a rule. Section 2 of the rule clearly states that the House Concurrent Resolution 34 shall have force and effect. Again ``force and effect,'' the traditional language of something that is deemed and passed under a rule. The mere passage of this rule will deem and pass the end of Medicare as we know it as contained in House Concurrent Resolution 34, the Republican budget. I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentlewoman from Texas (Ms. Jackson Lee).”