Bart Stupak: “If I may, if it is based upon the Republican budget that was passed this year, that budget was already vetoed and…”

“If I may, if it is based upon the Republican budget that was passed this year, that budget was already vetoed and rejected by the American people and by the President. I am glad to see him stand tough to protect the issues like Medicare, Medicaid, education, the environment and our veterans. If nothing else, for the listeners back home just again, let's go back to Medicare, something that affects all of us, our grandparents, our parents. We cannot have a hearing, but yet we will spend 59 days on Whitewater, 12 days on Waco, and 14 days on Ruby Ridge? Those are hearings that were for nothing more but to divide this country, to foster unfounded allegations, to just rip apart this country. But yet something that affects all of us, that we should be concerned about and actually could unite the country, balance the budget and yet still provide for our seniors and parents and grandparents, we do not get any hearings on that, but we want to talk about Ruby Ridge and Waco and Whitewater. The priorities have been backwards. They have been upside down. So, hopefully, as the fall unfolds, there will be a new majority come January, and we can get back on the right track of looking forward to working with the American people, not against them, not deceive them, not be decisive, but work forward and move this country forward.”