06/25/2004
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"The purpose of the Medicare system is to deliver modern medicine to America's seniors."
"Pamela P. Willeford, of Texas, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to Switzerland."
"Medicare is an important national achievement, and it is a continuing moral responsibility of our Federal Government."
"Something had to be done about that threat."