Martin Hoke: “Mr. Speaker, we did a threefer this week. A threefer. First of all, we passed welfare reform that fundamentally changes…”

“Mr. Speaker, we did a threefer this week. A threefer. First of all, we passed welfare reform that fundamentally changes the welfare system, and it ways no more something for nothing. We are not going to condemn people to a cycle of dependency. We will not rip off their dignity and their self-worth. Great bill. Second, health care reform says that health insurance can be kept when individuals leave or change their jobs. It provides for long-term care insurance deductions, fights fraud and abuse, allows self-employed health care deductions, and it establishes for the first time the one thing that is going to put consumers, patients, back in the driver's seat and take the power away from bureaucracies and insurance companies: medical savings accounts. We passed that. Today we are going to pass another bill that will make our airports safer, that will crack down on terrorism and that is going to make this country a safer place to live. A threefer for this Congress, Mr. Speaker.”