What would you do about somebody that is born in the South, an African-American in 1940?

The real problem is Medicare.

It has been clear, since the first hearing of this Task Force, that my colleagues in the majority have attempted to turn into constitutional issues what are essentially policy disputes between the parties.

If you do not take a position, if you do not take a stand, you stand with the oppressor, and not with the victim.

You are talking about discriminating against the vulnerable, and you are taking the role of helping the oppressor.

You cannot balance things on people born between 1926 and 1950.

You do not look African-American, you do not look like the South.

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