[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 64 (Wednesday, May 5, 1999)]
[House]
[Page H2795]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE

  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Ose). The Chair would remind the Members 
to direct their comments to the chair and not to the members or viewing 
audience outside the Chamber.
  Mr. BROWN of Ohio. In closing, I think, Mr. Speaker, the commitment 
for all of us, all four of us that have been here tonight, the 
gentleman from Florida (Mr. Deutsch), the gentleman from Texas (Mr. 
Green), the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Pallone) is start with the 
15 percent budget surplus, put it in Medicare, put those over the next 
half dozen, dozen years, hundreds of billions of dollars into Medicare. 
The trust fund already is solid until 2015.

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  We can even do better than that. Make sure the preventive care is 
explained as well as the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Deutsch) did, and 
we continue to talk about that, and expand Medicare 55 to 64, and 
especially programs like prescription drugs.
  I thank my colleagues for joining us tonight.

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