Jim McDermott actually said...

It is patently unfair to ask physicians or others paid under the fee schedule to live with the sword of Damocles hanging over their head yea...

This Committee has been wrestling with the need to reform Medicare's physician payment system for more than a decade.

I come from Seattle where we spend a lot of effort politically passing initiatives for low-income housing.

Russell Long, the old Finance Chairman in the Senate, once said that tax policy is 'Don't tax you, don't tax me, tax the guy behind the tree...