On the recordMarch 31, 2014
I would like to spend some time talking about the bill that is on the floor. I thank my colleagues from Oregon and Virginia. I have enjoyed working with them. The bill we have on the floor is one of the reasons I am leaving Congress at the end of this year. This is why the American people are disgusted with us. We are going to put off until tomorrow what we should be doing today. We should be fixing this problem instead of delaying the problem. I concur a lot with what my colleague from Virginia said. But the fact is that there is no courage, there are no guts, and there are no intentioned actions to do what is the best thing in the long term for this country in this body anymore. We have a bill that came to us--and I appreciate the fact that the chairman wants to try to fix it. But if they vote for this bill that is on the floor today, they are part of the problem. They are not part of the solution; they are part of the problem. There are four budget points of order that lie against this bill. Why in the world would there be four points of order lying against this bill? We are only going to vote on one of them. It is because it is a sham. It is a lie. The pay-fors aren't true. They are nothing but gimmicks. It is corruptible. There is no integrity in what we are getting ready to vote on in terms of being truthful with the American public and in terms of being truthful with the people who are providing the care for Medicare patients.…
