Phil Gingrey: “I thank the gentleman from Ft. Worth. I guess I have run my Dallas-Ft. Worth together. But the gentleman has done a…”

“I thank the gentleman from Ft. Worth. I guess I have run my Dallas-Ft. Worth together. But the gentleman has done a great job in working with us on this time, and I appreciate his comments tonight as well. Madam Speaker, there has been a lot of discussion about extending the deadline to say, well, you know, we don't need to be penalizing seniors if they don't sign up in time, and that is something that hopefully we will have an opportunity tonight to talk a little bit about. At this point I am going to call on my good friend and teammate on the Republican baseball team, hopefully again this year, and I am talking about the gentlewoman from Pennsylvania, who is also a member of the Ways and Means Committee. And I will tell you, my colleagues, you know, that is so important because the Health Subcommittee on Ways and Means is where these issues relating to Medicare are ironed out before they come to the general membership, to the floor. And the expertise in that committee level is so strong, and so it is wonderful to have Melissa Hart with us tonight. And I would like to turn the mike over to her at this time.”