Richard B. Nugent: “I am ready to close. Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time. Mr. Speaker, I am urging my…”

“I am ready to close. Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time. Mr. Speaker, I am urging my colleagues to defeat the previous question. If we defeat the previous question, I will offer an amendment to the rule to bring up H.R. 4209, Mr. John Tierney's bill that contains the historic bipartisan, bicameral agreement on a permanent fix to the sustainable growth rate of Medicare, which will ensure fairness to doctors and strengthen Medicare. My colleagues on both sides of the aisle have heard from the medical community on this issue. My Republican friends, unfortunately, have proposed a ``poison pill'' amendment that would kill this bipartisan agreement with an offset attacking the Affordable Care Act. Mr. Tierney's bill instead includes a commonsense pay-for that finances the bipartisan doc fix by putting limits on our spending on wars overseas. We already have these sorts of caps on spending for almost everything else in the budget, and it is time we capped our war spending as well. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to insert the text of the amendment in the Record, along with extraneous material, immediately prior to the vote on the previous question. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from Massachusetts? There was no objection. Mr. McGOVERN. This amendment simply caps the OCO.…”