[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 6]
[House]
[Page 8438]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                            DEBT RESOLUTION

  (Mr. DEUTCH asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DEUTCH. Mr. Speaker, the partisan debt resolution was dead on 
arrival yesterday. But what really should have been DOA is the 
Republican plan to end Medicare and turn seniors over to private 
insurance companies.
  Today, despite the outright rejection of this plan from south Florida 
to western New York and all across America, Republicans will try to 
deem and pass the reckless Ryan budget. That's right: those who decried 
``deem and pass'' during the health care reform debate now seek to use 
it to end Medicare.
  In fact, it was the distinguished chairman of the Rules Committee 
who, in an effort to stoke fear over the Affordable Care Act, 
derisively labeled deem and pass the Slaughter Solution. Apparently 
using deem and pass to help insure 150 million Americans is an 
abomination but using it to end Medicare, that's courageous.
  What would truly be courageous is if my Republican colleagues 
abandoned their plan to gut Medicare and Medicaid and instead supported 
deficit reduction that ends giveaways to Big Oil and more $100,000 tax 
cuts for millionaires.

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