[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 5]
[House]
[Page 6047]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




              IN THE PEOPLE'S HOUSE, ONLY THE BIG DOGS EAT

  (Ms. BROWN of Florida asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. BROWN of Florida. Mr. Speaker, my name is Congresswoman Corrine 
Brown, and I'm from the great State of Florida, the home of Claude 
Pepper.
  Claude Pepper was the champion for senior citizens and the elderly, 
and he would be so appalled by the bill that the Republicans are 
bringing to the House floor tomorrow, which will gut and privatize 
Medicaid and Medicare in order to give tax cuts to the millionaires and 
billionaires. That's shocking--that's shocking to me--but Republicans 
are doing it after one hearing, which is unacceptable.
  You talk about open government. Why is it that we have not had 
hearings where we bring in our stakeholders and talk about how this 
would affect senior citizens?
  How can you dare to propose that people who may not even make $6,000 
a year have to pay an additional $6,000 a year for health care 
insurance?
  It's so sad that, in the people's House, only the big dogs eat.

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