[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 91 (Thursday, June 23, 2011)]
[House]
[Page H4474]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




        WE MUST SUSTAIN AND PROTECT SOCIAL SECURITY AND MEDICARE

  (Mr. AL GREEN of Texas asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. AL GREEN of Texas. Mr. Speaker, in these times of great 
difficulty and uncertainty, our senior citizens want to know where we 
stand, and I want the senior citizens to know that I stand with them. I 
will not vote to voucherize Medicare, and I will not vote to socialize 
to the extent that we privatize Social Security.
  Medicare has been there for millions of our senior citizens. It is a 
program on which they can depend. In their minds, Medicare is better 
care. We have 40 million seniors depending on Medicare. We cannot take 
that from them. Many of the seniors in my district depend on Social 
Security to the extent that, if they don't have Social Security, they 
do not ``have.''
  These two programs mean a lot to the people that I represent. No 
privatization of Social Security and no voucherizing of Medicare. I 
will vote to sustain them and protect them.

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