Austin Scott: “I say to my colleagues, I plead with my colleagues to let us have this opportunity to recommit. We have had so much…”

“I say to my colleagues, I plead with my colleagues to let us have this opportunity to recommit. We have had so much debate where we have talked about the cost of these plans, and I thought it was an unfair dig at my good friends, the gentleman from New York (Mr. Rangel) and the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Dingell), and their bill being $1 trillion. That was not true, because there was no effort to put the cost containment in. But we and the Blue Dogs have put together a budget; we put together a plan at $400 billion that falls right within the issue. This is an important issue to all the people of this Nation. And here we are at 1:30 in the morning on my birthday. But I will tell my colleagues this: I could not find a better thing to do on my birthday than to be down here fighting for these seniors, that the Democratic Party has been fighting for ever since we have had a Democratic Party. I would hope that we would get this opportunity to recommit.”