Virginia Foxx: “Thank you very much. I want to thank our colleague from Missouri, Congresswoman Hartzler, for leading this important…”

“Thank you very much. I want to thank our colleague from Missouri, Congresswoman Hartzler, for leading this important effort tonight to highlight the concern that Republican women have for the millions of seniors that we represent in Congress. And, yes, I do come from a little community in western North Carolina that's called Grandfather Community, because there is a mountain there called Grandfather Mountain that's one of the highest mountains east of the Rockies. It's the second highest mountain east of the Rockies. And I have to tell you, when people come and see the beautiful view I have and say, ``How can you leave this to go to Washington?'' I tell them it isn't easy. But I think that we're doing important work here, and it's important that we continue to do this work and represent, I think, the majority of the people in this country. I think highlighting this is very important. And it's interesting. My colleague from North Carolina who just spoke, Congresswoman Ellmers, and I did not exchange notes, but we both were on the same wavelength in terms of what we wanted to talk about. I read my own mail, I answer all my own letters, and I'm astounded at the number of letters I get from seniors who tell me they're very concerned about the health of the Medicare and Social Security programs. {time} 1910 They are concerned, and they've been misled into thinking that Republicans want to do something negative to those programs.…”