Lizzie Fletcher

as we speak tonight, there is a committee marking up the prescription drug bill which will provide prescription drug coverage for all seniors in this country. I believe it is one of the most pressing issues in health care that we face…

We said no senior should have to choose between food and medicine, and yet that is happening in this country, and yet we are undoubtedly the wealthiest Nation in the world's history. We have developed a tremendous amount of health care…

it is truly a privilege to be here this evening representing the leadership, the Republican leadership, on a very, very critical issue. Let me go back in time just briefly and look at when Medicare was first developed. We know that has…

I know that the gentleman, having owned and operated a small business, providing health care, and as we worked on the Patients' Bill of Rights, I remember a lot of times we spent together and the gentleman talking about making sure we…

we have heard a lot of strong words, I think even sometimes inappropriate words, disturbing, extreme words this evening, as we have been discussing this budget, particularly from the other side. All of us agree that these are unusual…

certainly in response to my colleague who last spoke, let me say that if he looks historically over the last several years in the funding for IDEA, he will find that since the Republicans have taken control of Congress, percentage-wise we…

In light of the recent events, it seems even more appropriate to quote Dr. Martin Luther King. Let me read his quote. ``The function of education, therefore, is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. But education which…

I rise to address this honorable body. Words fail to fully express our grief and fall short of describing our resolve as we respond to this act of barbary and violence against the free and innocent. Throughout our Nation's history, we…

I rise today to thank a dear friend and classmate, Reverend Roy Mays, for his beautifully insightful prayer opening today's session of the United States House of Representatives. Within the hallowed walls of this Chamber, my colleagues and…

would the gentleman please explain to me why MSA expansion is in your bill, and why the patient protections in that bill will not protect those patients in MSAs?

As a family physician, one of the things that you learn to recognize very early is that some things need to be done in a timely basis and other things can wait. This needs to be done, I think, in a basis that we can get this accomplished…

as a practicing physician, the possibility of malpractice was always there in the back of your mind, because you wanted to make sure you delivered the most quality care you could to your patients. I can think of generally, probably a day…

I just wanted to rise and discuss some issues regarding patient protections. As we know, this is a piece of legislation that is anticipated to come before this body next week. It is a piece of legislation that has been debated for quite…

Let me address this. A young mother sometimes is not sure whether an infant needs to come. I recall a situation where a young mother came and she gave me, after a few questions, a short history of this infant. She was not sure whether or…

I think we all would probably agree that the education of our children is one of our greatest responsibilities. Folks have said, well, it is not perfect. Of course it is not. But it is a very, very good product and a great step in the…

as we look back over the history of this body for 40 years, since the mid sixties we have been spending the money that individuals have paid in their payroll for Social Security and for Medicare. We have been spending it on other…

As it stands right now, we have had a program similar to this instituted; it has been through the appropriations. We have never had it fully authorized. We passed a bill similar to this or it was passed in Congress before I was here, at…

as I continue, I plan on leading the fight against the previous question. I want to inform my colleagues that I intend to oppose the previous question and encourage them to do so. If it is defeated, I intend to offer an amendment to…

We have a $3.5 trillion publicly held debt. That is mind boggling. We must continue on this historic path to pay down the publicly held debt. We have an opportunity today to actually appropriate and pay down the publicly held debt by…

it is really with a great privilege that I get to stand here and introduce this legislation. I recall back just after I was first sworn in, we heard the President of the United States stand up and say he wanted to spend 38 percent of the…

let me address a few things. First of all, when it comes to the other side after years and years of running up deficits over $200 billion a year, I can think of no more amazing conversion than Paul on the road to Damascus. We certainly…

I am certainly very pleased to have bipartisan support and bipartisan rhetoric on this floor. Let me first correct a few things though. This does do something different than what is done. Right now, at this point, it is really contrary to…

I stand to speak today to support this bill. It is a day that my daughter back home, surrounded by her mother, my mother, and my mother-in-law, are all viewing right now as she is having an ultrasound this morning to look at the child…

this budget, as we have heard and been able to speak about tonight I think is really the work, and I have to give the gentleman from Ohio (Chairman Kasich) certainly a lot of credit for all the work he has done to work and even get an…

This blue line represents what the Republicans have put in compared to what the administration, the Democrats want to, and we can see that every year it is more. Now, this year, finally, we have convinced the administration to come up with…