Bill Delahunt: “And the execution of the Medicare prescription drug benefit, the so-called part D, what has occurred, let me suggest, is…”

I thank the gentleman for yielding me this time. Madam Speaker, it was some 13 years ago that a friend of mine at home approached me and described to me the characteristics and symptoms of a disorder he called fragile x. He demonstrated a…

There should be no doubt that we need a new regulatory framework and as importantly sustained supervision of the financial system.

I think it says something about our system, our political system and how, you know, how there are powerful interests that oftentimes, I believe, don't really understand their own interests in the long term.

I hear what you all say, but I am gravitating toward what Mr. Levitin says about a real fundamental shift...