Actually, nobody deserves to be heard on this motion to recommit. It is 119 pages of nothing. The way you constructed it, knowingly and on purpose, was to pull a charade on seniors. Nothing in this bill will be available to seniors because you did not put a little word in there, a word that would have proved honesty, a word that would have proved courage, a word that would have let seniors know----
David Thomas: “Actually, nobody deserves to be heard on this motion to recommit. It is 119 pages of nothing. The way you constructed…”
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Criticizing a motion to recommit related to a bill affecting seniors.
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