Elizabeth Furse: “not only was I in that committee room, I am a member of this committee and we, the Democrats on that committee, have…”

“not only was I in that committee room, I am a member of this committee and we, the Democrats on that committee, have asked over and over and over again for hearings on the Medicare bill because we are very concerned that there is stuff in there that nobody understands. We wanted a hearing with the trustees. We hear the Republicans talk about the trustees' report. We asked for a hearing with them. We asked for a hearing with seniors. We thought that maybe we could have the AMA there. We could have everybody there to talk about this bill. But we were refused a hearing. Now, yesterday before the markup, the markup on a 400-page bill, of which there have been no hearings on that particular bill, a group of senior citizens came into the hearing room, into the markup room. They had respectfully asked, no, I would say they begged for answers. They said, What is this bill going to do to our health care? They begged. They said, Just tell us, give us some time, talk to us about what is in the bill. And they were a group, some very, very senior. I would like you to look at this picture here of this lady. In this picture, that police person is not putting a bracelet on that lady's arms. He is putting handcuffs, handcuffs. Her name is Roberta Saxton. She is age 67. Now, I am a senior. I understand how frightening that must have been. Well, what happened in that committee room was quite extraordinary and quite horrifying.”