[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 17]
[House]
[Page 24295]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]


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    BIPARTISAN SPIRIT CAN MAKE PRESCRIPTION DRUG BENEFITS A REALITY

  (Mr. ROGAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1


minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ROGAN. Mr. Speaker, House Republicans are committed to achieving 
results, not setting up roadblocks. Already we have passed a plan to 
provide prescription drug coverage that is voluntary, affordable, and 
available to all. When we tried to work with Democrats on this issue, 
they got up and walked out of the Chamber.
  It is time to put partisan politics aside and work to get a 
prescription drug plan signed into law. Vice President Gore campaigns 
for a plan to force seniors into a one-size-fits-all, government-run 
HMO. Recently, Mr. Gore told seniors a phony story about his own 
mother-in-law to win their support for this flawed drug plan. Now he 
and his friends in this Chamber are inventing stories about Medicare to 
frighten seniors.
  Mr. Speaker, the Republican Congress has put the Nation's financial 
house in order, we stopped the raid on Social Security, and we are 
paying down the national debt. Now a prescription drug benefit is 
possible. If the President and our friends on the other side of the 
aisle would adopt a bipartisan spirit, we would be able to offer these 
benefits next year.

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