[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 148 (2002), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 11751]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                        INSURANCE PROTECTION ACT

  (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. Mr. Speaker, my silence today reflects the 
fact that the Republicans gagged me by presenting to this House an 
Insurance Protection Act that takes away the rights of my mother and 
your mother and your father to be able to have a real guaranteed 
prescription drug benefit through Medicare that initially was signed by 
the President of the United States, Lyndon Baines Johnson, in 1965. I 
am gagged today, but I will not remain silent because I live in 
America; and I will fight this fight to get a real Medicare drug 
benefit for the American people. We will fight and we will win.

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