Senate Proceeding on Sep 24th, 2009 :: 0:33:05 to 0:34:00
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Sam Brownback: mr. alexander: i senator brownback, if you want to conclude our -- mr. brownback: i think to put it in kansas-type savings, if you're talking about taking savings from medicare to start a whole new entitlement program, that's like writing a big blank check on a program to buy a new car. who would do something like

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Speech By: Sam Brownback

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Sam Brownback: that? when you're saying that's what the federal government is looking at doing in this proposal that senator baucus has put forward. medicare is is not sustainable. it is not fiscally sowfnltdz you're going to write an overdrafted check on that to start a whole new program that you don't have the wherewithal to

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Sam Brownback: want to see you do because they want to see you fix the current program and get it on a sustainable basis. so it really doesn't make sense. it'sut of the stream of thought of the american public. we really ought to back up, stop, and go with this on incremental changes to get costs down and more people covered