James P. Greenwood

Let us keep the debate honest and talk about fungibility. Let us not use language that implies that these funds can be directly used for abortion.

Is the gentleman aware that since 1973 it has been against the law to use one dime of these funds for abortions overseas, that the Helms amendment of 1973 prohibits the expenditure of any of these funds for abortion?

Dear Congressman Greenwood, I never thought that I would come to this time in my life and find myself neglecting my health out of sheer necessity. I am a widow, 70 years of age. My medical problems require drugs that amount to over $1,000…

These prescription drugs, as miraculous as they are and as beneficial as they are, are increasingly expensive. Not only are they expensive, it is not simply that the price of a particular medicine goes up and up and up; but as this chart…

They were not very happy about that. We all remember Chairman Rostenkowski's car being rocked by a group of seniors because essentially what the Congress was saying is that if you already have this benefit, we are going to make you pay for…

In 1965, America proved its humanity and proved the level of its civilization by caring for its elderly and eventually extending that Medicare benefit to the disabled. When it did so, it did not include a prescription drug benefit. It did…

I think what is important, as we compare the President's plan to the House Republican plan to other plans that may be in the Senate and elsewhere, what is important to understand is that there are some similarities. The low-income folks in…

The fundamental goal is to provide coverage for everyone. What has been discouraging and frustrating to me is that we have crafted this plan so that it benefits everyone regardless of income. If one is at the lowest end of the scale, we…

Clearly what we want to do is we want to provide choice. One of the first charts I held up demonstrated that a significant portion of America's elderly, two out of three already have prescription drug coverage and about half of those, or…

I think it is constructive that earlier this afternoon the Pennsylvania delegation met with Governor Ridge, a former member here. The first question that our Governor asked is, When are you going to move this Ed-Flex bill? We absolutely…

Throughout this debate the opponents of Shays-Meehan have tried to argue that our limitation on soft money is breaking new ground. It is not. I believe it was in 1912 that Congress decided to eliminate corporate and labor union money from…

It may be the candidates do not know where the money came from, but it is certainly the case that when the XYZ Corporation gives a huge sum of money to the Democratic or the Republican Party, Members of Congress in the House and the Senate…

Mr. Chairman, imagine three children. The first child is the child we would all like to raise. The child abstains from sexual behavior long beyond their minority status. The second child makes a mistake and becomes involved sexually and…

Then on the Delaney clause, all we are saying, again, is we want the FDA to decide what the standard should be for products that might be remotely tested in animals to have some carcinogenic quality. It is the old story, you hear these…

That story tells what needs to be told and what we are trying to accomplish here, and that is save lives. He was fortunate. He could afford to go to Italy and have the surgery and pay for it, but most Americans do not have that luxury.

Absolutely not. The Medicare Part A, the hospitalization, the bigger piece of the pie, is already paid for by wages, a tax paid by employers and employees. Well, today we are in okay shape, because we are going to spend less money today…

A very important point has to be made here. If we recall in the first 100 days of this Congress, the first three months-plus, we paid for those tax reductions. The way we did it is we reduced by $180 billion over the next seven years the…

Yes. What we are doing, we are increasing between 5 and 10 percent the financial incentives for the managed care companies to go and aggressively market their product. So what they will be doing is going to the senior centers, advertising…

If I may, what will happen, the Medicare program would pay a figure, let us say $5,000, for each senior citizen in that community right to the hospital and doctor network. That would be, we would basically be paying the insurance premium…

Unfortunately, it was anything but that. It was political theater. It was scripted. It was planned. It is sort of the latest in political guerilla warfare. You create a media event that works for you on television.

My recommendation, and I have done this before, is instead of having the taxpayers pay for an hour of one side of the issues is to engage in debate, to have an actual discussion. The facts presented about the arrest yesterday, if one iota…