[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 148 (2002), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 10844]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           PRESCRIPTION DRUGS

  (Ms. BROWN of Florida asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. BROWN of Florida. Mr. Speaker, tomorrow, in my district in 
Orlando, President Bush will be visiting the Marks Community Center on 
Physical Fitness, and we thank him. I have a lot of seniors in my 
district, but besides physical fitness, they need the prescription drug 
benefit that was promised to them in the last election.
  When I was home recently in Jacksonville, I had to go to the 
drugstore to pick up a prescription for my grandmother. I thought the 
copayment would be $15. It was $91. Our grandmothers deserve better 
than that.
  If the Republican leadership and Mr. Bush could take a break from 
their $30 million drug company fund-raisers and their tax cuts to the 
rich, maybe they could work on a compromise that will provide our 
seniors with the relief they need and that was promised to them in the 
last election. They need to get their priorities straight.

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