Patrick Kennedy: “It effects $95 billion in tax cuts, 395,000 seniors going into Medicare Select, MSA's, all the cuts that are going to…”

“It effects $95 billion in tax cuts, 395,000 seniors going into Medicare Select, MSA's, all the cuts that are going to ensue, 15 percent in goals cuts, veterans, Social Security Administration, all that is to come down the road. All I am saying to the gentleman is under martial law, we have an hour and a half to debate that. The gentleman points out, rightfully so, that there are a lot of good Members on my side of the aisle who signed onto this. But that does not excuse the fact that we will not have adequate time to debate something that I might add, if the gentleman would yield further for a second, that I might add would consume months of debate in future Congresses. The decision we are going to make today and tomorrow is going to impact enormously on the future of this country. Yet we have an hour and a half to decide something so huge. Yet we are going to dilly-dally and spend months and months debating appropriations bills in future Congresses over just finite parts of this budget deal in the future.”