Jack Kingston: “I am doing that in the name of some constituents of mine, Brian and Sue Doe in Vidalia, Georgia. Now Mr. Doe is retired…”

“I am doing that in the name of some constituents of mine, Brian and Sue Doe in Vidalia, Georgia. Now Mr. Doe is retired from the police force, and Mrs. Doe is retired from the Piggly-Wiggly Grocery Store chain. They are on a fixed income, $20,000 a year. They do not know what procedural motions are, motions to rise, motions to adjourn. In fact, it would be funny for them to figure why would people who are paid $136,000 a year vote to adjourn and quit working at 11:00 in the morning. But that is Washington. Here is what they know, and here is what they are real experts on. On their fixed income they have to pay about $8,200 a year for prescription drugs, $8,200. Anything from Lipitor for his cholesterol to something for her heart murmur; and they know that these expensive drugs, this one right here at $10 a shot, that they have to take three or four times a week, they know under this plan, this bipartisan plan today, it will go down from $10 to about $6. They know that $8,200 a year will go down to $6,000; even more than that. They know that they will have the choice of plans. They know that this will not get in the way of their doctor relationship.”