Health Care
Floor Speech
Issues: Health and Health Care
Mr. ELLISON. Mr. Speaker, need I remind this body that between the years 2000 and 2006, the party apposite controlled the White House, the House of Representatives, and the Senate. What did they do for the American people regarding health care? Nothing; nothing at all. They didn't do anything to help the American people. And now that the Democratic Caucus is within a hair's breadth of delivering real reform, all we hear about is death panels, sex school clinics, and now, oh, my God, the Democrats are after the seniors.
Seniors of America, in 1965, when Medicare was passed, only 22 Republicans voted for it; probably none will vote for health care reform now. Remember that at the polls.
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