Political Quotes

“Thank you. I want to thank my colleague for sponsoring this Special Order. I know we're running close to being out of time, but this is such an incredibly important topic for us as daughters, as granddaughters, as nieces and sisters. We spend a lot of time going to senior centers. I do in my district. I believe, as my colleagues have mentioned tonight, one of the resounding themes of our seniors right now is they're afraid, they're concerned, they're worried. They don't know what the future's going to be because of all the rhetoric surrounding Washington. The statistics that we've heard, a lot of them tonight, some of the ones that I've heard is that on top of more seniors living longer, we're going to have, the number of disabled elderly persons is projected to rise by one-third by 2030. As of January 1, 2011, each day 10,000, baby boomers turn 65. The numbers just aren't going to fit. We've talked about the Republican plan to reform Medicare, to not touch those benefits of our present seniors, but to reform it for future seniors, for the baby boomers to come that are going to be turning 65 and going to have to rely on and need to rely on Medicare. {time} 1920 I'd like to talk about something in a personal way. We have a personal story, a lot of us. I'm in the sandwich generation. My parents are both in their eighties, and they're really having a pretty rough spell of bad health.…”