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I would say that it is kind of interesting to listen to some prior speakers who talked about the poor and who would get this. First, no single mother with an income more than $20,000 is going to be eligible because, by the way, $20,000 is…
I want to talk, first of all, a little bit about long-term care and what it means to folks in and around. One reason was mentioned just about nursing home care, but there are other reasons for long-term care. We are talking about home…
I want to point out something here that continues to be talked about in the low-income seniors being given total prescription drugs. The problem is in the bill that we are talking about, it does not waive the asset test that beneficiaries…
Mr. Speaker, I want the people of the fifth district's voices to be heard tonight, too. First of all, I want to say that this debate tonight is not about the provider givebacks in this bill. This debate is about the most important issue…
we keep hearing this 30 percent. Actually, there has been a letter dated by the CBO on July 26 that says that they are confused, that there has been some confusion about the meaning of the 30 percent cost management factor that CBO applied…
Let me repeat that, under Medicare, and that would look and operate like the benefits they already get such as hospitalization and physician care because we would use those same providers that we use today. However, very interesting, the…
one other issue that the gentlewoman from Florida (Ms. Brown) brought up that I also think is very important in this debate and quite frankly it is an issue that our Republican colleagues are having, I can say from CongressDaily today, one…
as part of my continuing series on Social Security and women, I would like to focus this evening's comments on the financial risks that I believe are posed by privatizing the Social Security program. Social Security privatization would…
Tonight I would like to do a tribute to our volunteer crime fighters within the Citrus County Sheriff's Office under the leadership of Sheriff Jeffrey Dawsy. The Citrus County Sheriff's Office has one of the largest and most successful…
I went home last week, and the first thing I was called upon to talk about was the repeal of the death tax. Somebody sent out a press release saying that I voted against the repeal of the death tax, and I did. What they failed to mention…
Social Security is a very important issue, and certainly I think she laid out to the public what is happening here in Congress. And I agree with her that we should not be spending the Social Security money on anything other than Social…
before Medicare, we had private insurance. We have Medicare because there was no coverage under private insurance.
I accompany the gentleman on these many nights because this is an issue that I feel very strongly about, as the gentleman does; and he has invested much time in this issue. Quite frankly, it is not for us, it is for our constituents who…
Mr. Chairman, before we go on to this next debate, I do want to say, and I really hope that some of my friends on the other side will look at their rollcall vote 103 in April of 1999, to stand up here in one day with this President to talk…
the only thing I would say then is maybe us being here tonight and talking about this issue, maybe it will give some pause; and maybe we will have the opportunity to have that debate.
That is exactly right, and this is not a model that quite frankly is obscure in this government. It is going on. We are seeing it within the VA system. The VA system, in fact, does just that. They negotiate for military retirees and…
And we could say the gentlewoman from Nevada (Ms. Berkley) has given us a wonderful opportunity to understand what happened in Nevada. And it would seem to me that it would be something this Congress ought to be looking at where the…
And that is a concern because there needs to be a debate. We need to understand the cost. We need to understand the consequence of whatever we bring to the floor. We need to understand if there is a market product out there for us. I mean…
And I think there were some issues out here also that are very alarming and very concerning and certainly ones that, I think, based on the constituency in the Fifth District in talking with them, that they were seeing high increases in…
I have melon-growers in my district. If we had country-of-origin labeling then, consumers would have known the source of the contaminated melons. They were foreign and not domestic. Our market would not have been disrupted, perfectly good…
Mr. Speaker, I just think this is the wrong bill at the wrong time for hardworking taxpayers who work hard to make ends meet today and retire comfortably tomorrow. Working Americans get little from this bill. They already have received 70…
I have to say that the thing that we most need to remember is that Social Security is so important, and why is it important. Remember that women rely more on Social Security income than men. About two-thirds of all the women 65 and older…
I would say to our chairman that I think one of the issues here is that we are really trying to get an opportunity to debate this issue, and not under the consent calendar, and to move it along in a different manner. I would also bring in…
I rise today to talk about Social Security and the President's budget. As we all know, the budget resolution is going to come to the House today, and I think it is very important that we highlight what the budget will do to Social…
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