Frank Pallone: “So one of the things that a number of my seniors told me, they said, I have finally got the Web site, and I got on it…”

“So one of the things that a number of my seniors told me, they said, I have finally got the Web site, and I got on it, and I compared the prices to figure out whether or not I wanted to take one of these cards; and then I went to one of the other Internet sites, and the prices were less. So why buy a card at all? It is so absurd. I listened to my colleagues on the Republican side tonight, and I know they mean well. I am not suggesting they do not. I know they feel strongly about this issue, as we do. But it is either their ideology or allegiance to the pharmaceuticals, as the gentleman says, or something that is getting in the way of reality here, and it should not. This is important. We have got to do something that is helpful to seniors, not worry about the ideology or whether or not you have got a prescription drug company in your district or all these other things that they seem to be concerned about.”