[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 9]
[Senate]
[Page 12285]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                                MEDICARE

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, the subject of Medicare is extremely 
important. Medicare is not a perfect program, but it is a good program. 
It has done so much to help the American people.
  I am glad to see we are going to address the issue. I hope we address 
it with the intent of doing more than just calling it Medicare reform. 
It has to be real Medicare reform. I hope that can be accomplished.
  (The remarks of Mr. REID pertaining to the submission of S. Res. 146 
are printed in today's Record under ``Submitted Resolutions.'')
  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Texas.

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