Rep. Corrine Brown: “Mr. Speakers, it matters who is in charge. This Republican leadership must think the American people are stupid. Last…”

“Mr. Speakers, it matters who is in charge. This Republican leadership must think the American people are stupid. Last week they raised $30 million dollars in a fund raiser with the drug companies, and this week we have a prescription drug bill on the floor. Now who do you think they wrote this bill for: The seniors they've been promising relief to for 2 years, or the big drug companies that will be funding their elections this fall? While on a trip back home to Jacksonville in March, I went to the drug store for my grandmother to pick up just one of her prescriptions. I was expecting maybe a $15 co-payment because I knew her insurance plan had drug coverage. The bill was $91 dollars. She had a limit on her coverage, and it had run out. We were 3 months into the year, and she no longer has a drug plan. My grandmother, and all grandmothers deserve better than this. If the Republicans can take a break from their million dollar drug company fund raisers and constant tax cut bills for their country club friends, maybe we can work on a compromise that will provide our seniors with the relief we have been promising them. My Republican colleagues talk the talk, but they don't walk the walk. The Republican leadership has come up with a privatized drug plan that has been rejected by both the insurance industry and the drug stores as unworkable, and fails to truly help seniors. This is one more perfect example of why it matters who is in charge.”