Nancy L. Johnson: “the company does not have the right to give a tax break. The company must pay the taxes that we require them to pay.”

but we need to do something better than the Senate position, and we certainly need to avoid the additional 2 percent cut that starts every year thereafter.

I ask how much time is remaining. The CHAIRMAN. The gentlewoman has 2\1/2\ minutes remaining.

I absolutely do. I think we are facing the possibility of physicians fleeing the Medicare program and creating a real access problem for seniors to physicians of their choice. But acceding to the Senate position is not going to fix it; it…

before I make the comments I rose to make, I do want to comment for those watching this debate, that when you hear the words ``tax cut,'' the great majority of that money, outside of the new tax provisions to encourage rebuilding in New…