Martin Hoke: “Mr. Speaker, that is what is such a shame, because if you are a senior citizen and we actually enact this piece of…”

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.

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…

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…