[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 13]
[House]
[Page 18789]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                      MEDICARE PRESCRIPTION DRUGS

  (Mr. LEWIS of Georgia asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LEWIS of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to urge my colleagues 
to pass legislation that would give a real prescription medicine 
benefit to our Nation's seniors. The Republican plan failed to meet the 
real problems that face our Nation's seniors. Our seniors have been 
receiving a bad deal when it comes to prescription medicine. Now is the 
time to give our seniors a good deal, a better deal, a fair deal.
  The American people need and want a meaningful benefit that is 
voluntary, universal, affordable and accessible to all of our seniors. 
There is no room here to play partisan politics. No senior, but no 
senior should have to choose between putting food on the table and 
getting his or her heart medicine. This is not just, this is not right, 
and this is not fair.
  My Republican brothers and sisters, this is our moral obligation, to 
do what is right.

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