[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 148 (2002), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 11752]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                  OUTRAGE OVER PRESCRIPTION DRUG RULE

  (Mr. GREEN of Texas asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GREEN of Texas. Mr. Speaker, we are one Nation under God, but God 
please help this House of Representatives. For the outrageous procedure 
that the Committee on Rules did this morning, we need God's blessing. 
For years and years seniors in our country have needed a prescription 
drug benefit, and yet early this morning Medicare was styled as a 
Soviet-style health care plan in the Committee on Rules, Medicare that 
was passed and had provided health care for seniors for over 35 years 
called Soviet care.
  Well, the Soviet concern is what the procedure is today in the House 
of Representatives, not allowing an option except on the Republican 
prescription drug bill that is so filled with holes, it leaks so bad, 
no senior will be able to get any prescription drugs. They will not 
have these lifesaving pharmaceuticals. Now they are not turning on 
their electricity, they are taking half prescriptions, and yet the 
Republicans today are giving them a sieve to be able to sift through.

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