[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 3650]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




CONGRESS MUST STEP IN TO EXTEND DEADLINE ON MEDICARE PRESCRIPTION DRUG 
                           PLAN REGISTRATION

  (Mr. MORAN of Virginia asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MORAN of Virginia. Mr. Speaker, in 2 months, about 10 million 
senior citizens are about to get a Bush Medicare tax imposed on them 
for the rest of their lives. If they don't sign up for the Medicare 
prescription drug bill by May 15, then they can't sign up again until 
the end of the year, and for the rest of their lives they will pay a 7 
percent higher premium than their neighbors under exactly the same 
circumstances just because they couldn't figure out this myriad of 
dozens of different plans that they are presented with.
  This is wrong. The Republicans and the Democrats need to get together 
to extend the deadline to the end of the year, regardless of what the 
President decides. It is time for Congress to act and to save these 10 
million Americans from having an unfair tax burden on their shoulders 
for the rest of their lives. It is wrong. Let's fix it.

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