Robert Ehrlich said "I come here and I watch episodes like we just observed and it is really interesting. I guess my question to you is a rhetorical question. Why cannot folks on the other side simply debate with respect to facts? Why can they not say, look, Ehrlich, look at you Republicans, Medicare should increase 10 percent a year. If it grows 7 percent a year, it is not good enough. At least they would be intellectually honest. We could have a real give and take. I suspect the fact you were not allowed into the conversation, no time was yielded to you, was they know that is the case. They know a 7-percent increase per year, as the Republican budget proposal proposed, is no cut. But look at the terminology, look at the words they use." @ PoliticalQuotes.com

On the recordMay 9, 1996

I come here and I watch episodes like we just observed and it is really interesting. I guess my question to you is a rhetorical question. Why cannot folks on the other side simply debate with respect to facts? Why can they not say, look, Ehrlich, look at you Republicans, Medicare should increase 10 percent a year. If it grows 7 percent a year, it is not good enough. At least they would be intellectually honest. We could have a real give and take. I suspect the fact you were not allowed into the conversation, no time was yielded to you, was they know that is the case. They know a 7-percent increase per year, as the Republican budget proposal proposed, is no cut. But look at the terminology, look at the words they use.

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Robert Ehrlich

Maryland

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Editor's note · Context

Discussing the nature of political debate and facts in Congress compared to state legislature experiences.

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