House Proceeding 11-07-09 on Nov 7th, 2009 :: 0:05:00 to 0:06:55
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Ginny Brown-Waite: trained to handle it best. our doctors. mr. speaker, to talk about this further, i now yield one minute to the gentlewoman of florida, congressman brown-waite. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman may yiel blocks of time. mr. cantor: thank you, mr. speaker.

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Speech By: Ginny Brown-Waite

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Ginny Brown-Waite: i yield to the gentlewoman florida rks congresswoman brown-waite. ms. brown-waite: a friend of mine told me, if i weren't for medicare advantage, i would be dead. it covers catastrophic costs traditional medicare does not. the bill before us today seeks to eliminate that coverage for millions of seniors.

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Ginny Brown-Waite: but you have a chance to make it rightere, ladies and gentlemen. the choice on the motion is you can put your seniors first or your trial lawyer contributors. a member can vote to open up the coffers of th treasury to trial lawyers or restore some of the cuts seniors would suffer under the

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Ginny Brown-Waite: pelosi bill in obama care. this bill creates 111 new bureaucracies and entitlements, but the only one it cut, ladies and gentlemen, the only one it cuts, is medicare. it's always been my position that any money cut from medicare should be used to save medicare, not to bail out trial attorneys. democrats have denied seniors

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Ginny Brown-Waite: the protection they promised. they cut medicare to create now benefits for -- benefiters in young, healthy, and we know where the democrat leadership stands on this issue. the speaker put ore trial lawyer cash cows ahead seniors. aarp put their profits ahead of our seniors. with this motion, you have a chance to restore some of our

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Ginny Brown-Waite: cuts. no excuses about ame killing the bill can be made no word games can get you out of this. this has bn to a vote for the seniors of america.