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May 18, 2012 |
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Rob Woodall, R-GA
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"The other part of spending is called mandatory spending, and that’s the part of spending that goes out the door whether Congress shows up to work or not. The President can take the year off. Congress can take the year off, that money is going to go out the door. That’s our parents’ and grandparents’ Social Security checks. Congress doesn’t have to affirmatively act to give you Social Security, Medicare. If you’re 65 years old, you’ve worked the required amount of time, you show up at the Medicare office, you just get Medicare. And then we have to figure out how to pay for it. That’s called the mandatory spending side of the ledger."
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| Statements On Introduced Bills And Joint Resolutions |
May 17, 2012 |
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Jack Reed, D-RI
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"While there are a variety of initiatives to support the education and training of physicians, none are more substantial than the GME funding provided by Medicare. This program either directly or indirectly supports every single physician trained in this country. No other Federal or State program can claim this credit."
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| The Food And Drug Administration Safety And Innovation Act—Motion To Proceed—Continued |
May 17, 2012 |
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Jack Reed, D-RI
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"One of the ironies of our current health care system, pending the, we hope, implementation of the affordable care act, is that we have millions and millions of Americans who have no real access to health care, no access to preventive care, no access to simple things such as cheap pharmaceuticals to control cholesterol until they get to be 65 years old. Then they go into the doctor’s office, and they have Medicare. But their problems are so much more expensive."
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| The Food And Drug Administration Safety And Innovation Act—Motion To Proceed |
May 17, 2012 |
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Mitch McConnell, R-KY
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"Mr. President, yesterday in the Senate we got a vivid look at why the challenges we face in this country are so difficult to address. With a looming fiscal crisis some have called the most predictable in history, with a national debt at a level none of us ever even imagined, with millions unemployed and millions more underemployed, with the biggest tax hike in history looming at the end of the year, and with entitlement programs such as Medicare and Social Security drawing ever closer to insolvency, here is what Senate Democrats did yesterday: They ducked. They were presented with five different options for dealing with these problems and they voted against every single one of them."
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