David Minge: “on rollcall No. 232 had I been present, I would have voted ``yes.''”

If my colleague would allow me to interrupt for a moment, he referred to the energy costs and tax cuts. I had a very interesting experience just this last week. I visited a small trucking company, and the founder of the trucking company…

The Fairness Caucus is committed to ending the regional disparities that exist with respect to Medicare today. The fact that seniors in some parts of the country are already receiving prescription drugs as a part of Medicare, at no premium…

That is exactly my point. We are corrupting the process here to be able to boast that we have done something that has not quite been achieved. I think that is one tragedy. The second is, we have not even talked here in our discussion about…

Maybe before the gentlewoman gets into any of the specifics there, we could just give some of the numbers actually on this debt reduction. The Blue Dog proposal which we have been talking about over 5 years would reduce the national debt…