[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 9203]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    FINDING A BETTER WAY IN AMERICA

  (Mr. KAGEN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KAGEN. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to ask all of us what kind of 
Nation are we when we neglect the needs of our senior citizens.
  In the past 2 weeks, I have received over 15,000 cards from voters in 
Wisconsin, just like this one from Elaine in Peshtigo which reads: ``I 
am soon an 80-year-old woman and a widow. My husband and I farmed, and 
we certainly had hard times the first years. But the years now are 
harder for old people. Oil companies take a huge profit. The CEOs make 
a salary no man on Earth is worth. The pill companies are taking huge 
profits with no consideration for our old people. The people of my 
generation lived through the Depression, World War II and two more 
wars, and now, in our old age, we face other obstacles.''
  My friends, there is a better way of doing things in America, and by 
working together, we will find it with no patient left behind.

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