Political Quotes

“Instead of a trust fund, a slush fund. Instead of furthering and strengthening the trust fund, they would raid that fund in order to provide these special tax breaks. Mr. Speaker, I know you have focused already on this trustees' report, and the key word there is trust. Who do the American people trust to ensure the long-term solvency of Medicare so it will be there not only when we retire, but when our children and our grandchildren retire, so provide them the kind of health care security they need. I would just want to add one other thing. I see our colleague and one of the few physicians in this body, the gentleman from Washington, Dr. McDermott, is here who has worked so hard on this. But I think as we consider the millions of people that are going to be adversely affected if the Speaker is successful in letting Medicare wither on the vine and shrivel up and go away for middle-class Americans, I just wanted to bring a picture of a couple of Texans, hard-working Texans that are going to be impacted, because I think we have to bring this down to human scale.”