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I happen to have the privilege of living in what is known as the frost belt where one of these research planes does deicing research in northeastern Ohio. Somehow, somebody missed the point about sending deicing research aircraft to the…
I would like to say just very, very briefly that what this does is essentially it is a ``Buy American'' amendment that applies to landing gear with certain exceptions and its makes it clear that the landing gear that will go on our…
Mr. Speaker, today is a day that we are celebrating with this special order this resolution where we have named March 25, 1996, as Greek Independence Day, a national day of celebration of Greek and American democracy. I guess what is…
I will tell him why I will not. Because that particular piece of legislation gives another $500 billion of additional extension on the debt ceiling, a half a trillion dollars. I think that is absolutely dead wrong. It is the kind of…
I really appreciate that. As the gentleman knows, I am the author of H.R. 2483, the Defend America Act. I appreciate the gentleman's support on that, and especially in light of this veiled threat from Chinese officials. I think it is…
I wanted just to confirm what we have discussed earlier with respect to the ballistic missile defense that is so important to the national security of our country, and that even though we have obviously lost this opportunity to build that…
Who has written this letter now in a very, very political way. He has decided to jump in politically because he sees that apparently the President's approach to this, which had been, frankly, very evenhanded, which had recognized that…
While there is a need to address the financial stability of Medicare, the congressional majority's claims are simply mistaken. As trustees of the Part A Medicare Trust Fund which is the subject of the current debate, and authors of an…
Simply said, no Member of Congress should vote for $270 billion in Medicare cuts believing that reductions of this size have been recommended by the Medicare trustees or that such reductions are needed now to prevent an imminent funding…
Is the real key to this not choice, giving our senior citizens the choices that we have in the Government, that people in the private sector have got?
Just like a private citizen, just like you and I, just like somebody in the private sector. You are not going to be stuck in a 1965 plan and not have any other options or places to go.
Mr. Speaker, that is what is such a shame, because if you are a senior citizen and we actually enact this piece of legislation to reform Medicare and save it and improve it and simplify it, which I believe we will, then as a senior citizen…
As the Washington Post says, it is Medigogery. I would like to make a prediction. I think this may help some people put this in context and perspective, because it is do brutally partisan here. It is very unfortunate, because so much of…
I would say my understanding that what the gentleman from Connecticut intends to do with Medicare is to cut $270 billion from Medicare over the next 7 years in order to give $280 billion in tax cuts strictly to wealthy Americans.
This one thing that we did, and we did it in the Committee on the Budget... it is real numbers, it is truth in budgeting.
One of the options that individuals have, and the gentlewoman from Connecticut will be pleased to know this, is if a senior citizen chooses, chooses to stay in a 35-year-old plan, they may do that. If they choose to do that, they have that…
OK; so clearly this is not something that has been trumped up by the Republican Party to create some kind of a phony crisis.
So, if there is a partisan issue, I suppose you could argue that these are all Democrats and that there are not Republicans.
What is unfortunate about this is that this was shared with me by a top official in the Department, and now they are scrambling like crazy. They are probably watching this very broadcast and saying, ``Oh, my goodness, what will we do…
This is a summary of the report by the trustees. It is like an annual report to the American people on the Medicare trust fund, Social Security trust fund and other trust funds, but Medicare trust fund. The President said it is going…
I do not want to delay the gentleman's special order, but I think the American people deserve to read this report themselves and make their own decision. I would urge every American to call 202-225-3121, ask your Representative at…
We ought to be looking at those kinds of models to in fact improve Medicare for the senior citizens of America.
The health care component of inflation in the private sector right now is about 4.4 percent. But in fact there are other models in the private sector of specific companies or industries that have been able to flatten their health care…
Reclaiming my time, what I have heard on television and I have seen it in some news reports is that the Republicans are slashing spending on Medicare.
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