Mike Pence: “Only in Washington, Mr. Speaker, could Congress be prepared to add a whole new entitlement to Medicare which may cost…”

“Only in Washington, Mr. Speaker, could Congress be prepared to add a whole new entitlement to Medicare which may cost children like my today 10-year-old daughter Charlotte $7 trillion and Democrats are holding up tombstones to say Medicare is being phased out. It is astonishing to a conservative like me. Today, Mr. Speaker, I informed our leadership that I cannot support the creation of a new Federal entitlement in the form of a universal drug benefit in Medicare, which is not to say that I am not ready today to help those at or near the level of poverty that are struggling with that terrible choice between food and rent and prescription drugs. Let us focus resources at the point of the need and not answer the scare tactics of the other side and end up playing their game and creating an all new massive Federal entitlement that kids like my little Charlotte will have to pay for for generations.”