Frank Pallone: “tonight I would like to once again talk about the proposed Republican cuts in Medicare and Medicaid that are included in…”

“tonight I would like to once again talk about the proposed Republican cuts in Medicare and Medicaid that are included in the budget, which we are most likely going to be voting on this Thursday in the House of Representatives. I had the opportunity on Monday of this week, just this past Monday in fact, to speak before the Edison Senior Center. Edison is the largest municipality in my district in New Jersey, and there must have been 100 senior citizens at the Edison Senior Center when I was there. I talked to them about what the Republican leadership was proposing to do with Medicare and Medicaid once again, and how similar the proposals in this budget we will be voting on are to the cuts and fundamental changes in Medicare and Medicaid that the Republican leadership proposed last year, and which the President and which the Democrats in the House of Representatives fought so hard to keep from becoming law. We were successful. We were successful in stopping those changes to Medicare and Medicaid last year, and many of the seniors at the Edison Senior Center, I indicated to them I felt very strongly that they and the seniors throughout the country were a big part in our effort to try to stop those changes in Medicare, because many of them wrote to their Congressmen or Congresswomen and wrote to their Senators and said they did not like the changes that the Republicans were proposing.”