[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 148 (2002), Part 8]
[House]
[Pages 11034-11035]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




          PROVIDING PRESCRIPTION DRUG BENEFIT OUR SENIORS NEED

  (Ms. MILLENDER-McDONALD asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. MILLENDER-McDONALD. Mr. Speaker, we come here each week to do the 
people's business, and we come hoping that we will do those things that 
are important to the American people. One of those groups of people are 
our seniors. They are waiting, Mr. Speaker. They are waiting to see 
just what we are going to do in terms of prescription drugs. Twelve 
million seniors are without prescription drugs, and yet we have sat, we 
have belabored this issue, and we have come to no conclusion.
  I think if my colleagues look at the Democratic proposal, we will 
find the vast difference of the two between the Democrats and the 
Republicans. The Democrats are asking for a sound prescription drug 
proposal. The Republicans are not.
  Mr. Speaker, it is high time for this body to do something for those 
who have done so much for our country, and those are the seniors. They 
are continuing to wait. They can wait no

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longer for us to do the business of this House, and that is providing 
the type of prescription drug benefit that our seniors need.
  I yield back my time.

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