Frank Pallone: “Mr. Speaker, the key here is my colleagues can come across the party aisle, Democrats and Republicans come across the…”

“Mr. Speaker, the key here is my colleagues can come across the party aisle, Democrats and Republicans come across the party aisle, George W. Bush ought not to be criticized in the late hour of the House of Representatives by a very partisan team who are out strictly to destroy any kind of proposal that George W. Bush comes up with. Now look, my colleagues may not agree with everything that George W. Bush says, but is the whole concept, every line of it intended to destroy Medicare? Of course it is not. It is just the same as Gore and Clinton, they have come up with some ideas. But should my colleagues just in blank say because it was Gore or because it was Clinton that it ought to be destroyed? No. I think my colleagues owe it to the people that we are elected to represent, to go on a very constructive fashion, as I intend to do here in a few minutes talking about the death tax and talk about the pluses and the minuses, talk about the details of it, talk about the fine print.”