Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, speaking earlier today, in fact, walking over from my office in Rayburn to the House floor to work with the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Bilirakis) on the Ryun legislation today, and I was talking to some people whose families have Alzheimer's, who are advocating for Alzheimer's patients, again, this Congress is falling short on substantive kinds of issues to help people with Alzheimer's. There are some four or five million people suffering from Alzheimer's today. If we do not do the research right, if we do not take care of those people well enough, that number is going to be as high, they say, in the next few years as 14 million patients. We are falling short on what we are doing for community health centers and the National Health Service Corps, from the Community Access Program that my friend, the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Green), has worked on, the Chronic Disease Prevention program with CDC, nurses shortage, pharmacist shortage, the problems with home health care reimbursement, the problems with physician reimbursements, the problems with hospitals, especially rural hospital and inner-city hospitals reimbursement. Those are the kinds of issues this Congress should work on.”