Bart Stupak: “when I was growing up as a young kid in northern Michigan, we used to have a saying, and I think it was a popular TV…”

“when I was growing up as a young kid in northern Michigan, we used to have a saying, and I think it was a popular TV program, that the $64,000 question, the $64,000 question is, and part of that game show was if you got it right you would get $64,000. That was the big question back then, and that was the question that everyone wanted to answer because it was the epitome of all questions. And if you would answer that, you would be so much further ahead. This $64,000 question used to be the ultimate question. But I guess in today's terminology and now in the 1990's it was the mother of all questions. Mr. Speaker, the $64,000 question has now grown with inflation and all to a $63 million question, a $63 million question, a question that we must have an answer to. It is a question that America needs an answer to. It is a question that this institution as an institution needs an answer to. The $63 million question is whether or not the President will veto H.R. 381, the bill which amends the IRS Tax Code to permanently extend the deduction for health insurance costs of self-employed individuals.”