[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 16048]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



             106TH CONGRESS HAS DONE NOTHING FOR AMERICANS

  (Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas. Madam Speaker, I wish I had good news, but 
this Republican Congress is about to recess for our work session in the 
district and we have no real Medicare prescription drug benefit for our 
seniors.
  Medicare is down. HMOs are closing. Over a million seniors will be 
kicked off of the HMO+Choice program through the Medicare. And we 
cannot give them a Medicare drug prescription benefit. We have no 
Patients' Bill of Rights, which allows individuals not to suffer the 
drive-by refusal of service in our hospitals.
  We have no housing for individuals who work but cannot afford the 
large payments of high-priced condominiums, and the housing 
appropriations was cut.
  We have no legislation to repair the crumbling schools throughout our 
Nation because we could not pass a school construction bill that would 
lend dollars to local communities to help them build new schools for 
our children.
  And, yes, as we start another school year, we did not have the 
courage to pass real gun safety legislation that would close the 
loopholes that keep guns out of the hands of children.
  All I can say is a bunch of nos. What have we done? Nothing for 
Americans.

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