Senate Proceeding 07-15-08 on Jul 15th, 2008 :: 3:34:49 to 3:54:49
Total video length: 4 hours 43 minutes Stream Tools: Stream Overview | Edit Time

Note: MetaVid video transcripts may contain inaccuracies, help us build a more perfect archive

Views:49 Duration: 0:20:00 Discussion

Previous speech:

3:33:30 to 3:34:49( Edit History Discussion )
Speech By: Debbie Stabenow

3:34:39 to 3:34:49( Edit History Discussion )

Debbie Stabenow: no way a dramatic change, a cut in services, orate reductions for any provider, including the privava insurancens providers. thank you, mr. president. the presiding officer: who yields time? mr.

3:34:49 to 3:35:03( Edit History Discussion )

Jon Kyl: kyl: mr. president, i just want to make it clear, i never conten ded that there was a ratree reduction. what i said was that all senators, i suspect, on both sides of the aisle support not having

3:35:03 to 3:35:14( Edit History Discussion )

Jon Kyl: a 10.6% cut in physician fees, that we all support the 1.1% positive update. that was never the issue here. the issue had to do with the other items that i talked about. and the fact that 2.3 million

3:35:14 to 3:35:26( Edit History Discussion )

Jon Kyl: seniors will lose their coverage option does not have to do with a rate cut. it has to do with the way that the medicare advantage program was used as an offset to pay for the additional benefits

3:35:26 to 3:35:36( Edit History Discussion )

Jon Kyl: in the bill as a result of which c.b.o. claims and believes -- and i believe that they're probably correct -- that 2.3 million seniors will lose their private option coverage. mr. president, i am willing

3:35:36 to 3:35:44( Edit History Discussion )

Harry Reid: to yield back thehe time. i've been informed senatoror grassley cannot be haoerbgs so i'm willing to yield back the time on the republican side and yid to the majorityit leader. mr. reid: mr.

3:35:44 to 3:36:02( Edit History Discussion )

Harry Reid: president,: it's my under standing there's two minutes left on our side. the presiding officee r: the majority leader is correct. mr. reid: thank you, mr. president. pr i'm going to yield tghat time

3:36:02 to 3:36:16( Edit History Discussion )

Max Baucus: to senator schumer. i have a short statement. i'll use leader time, maybe two and a half minutes, after that. i yield two minutes to senator baucus. the presiding officer: the senator from montana.

3:36:02 to 3:37:45( Edit History Discussion )
Speech By: Max Baucus

3:36:16 to 3:36:29( Edit History Discussion )

Max Baucus: mr. baucus: mr. president, m sometimes when the senators vote v in this chamber, c the real-world results or actions are unclear, , but tonight is not the case. tonight we can make a real-world

3:36:29 to 3:36:45( Edit History Discussion )

Max Baucus: difference for 44 million american seniors and for 9 million tricare users in america's military families. in less than an hour, the senate will vote -- in fact very shortly -- to override the president's

3:36:45 to 3:37:00( Edit History Discussion )

Max Baucus: veto on the medicare bill. here is the difference that our votes will make. doctors' doors stay open to older americans and to the children of fighting american men and women? will seniors living

3:37:00 to 3:37:13( Edit History Discussion )

Max Baucus: on a shoestring be able to get decent health care when hospitals are few and far between? our votes will make that difference. will the ambulances keep running? will benefits keep coverage with medicare

3:37:13 to 3:37:27( Edit History Discussion )

Max Baucus: prescription drugsc plans? the president made his decision, his vetoed medicare bill would shut the doctor's doors to seniors, military families on all ideological grounds. my bill does good things for

3:37:27 to 3:37:45( Edit History Discussion )

Max Baucus: seniors. it makes medicare for every beneficiary. the house has already voted to overvied the veto whoefrplgly: 383-41. folks, in my home state i'm going to do what's right and vote to make the

3:37:45 to 3:37:56( Edit History Discussion )

Harry Reid: medicare bill law for the montana seniors. today a large rally of folks supporting this bill to kao ep and this will be our finest hour. i hope and expect the senators will stand together. senators

3:37:45 to 3:40:57( Edit History Discussion )
Speech By: Harry Reid

3:37:56 to 3:38:08( Edit History Discussion )

Harry Reid: of all parties have one more chance to make all the difference. let's do what's right for seniors. let's do what's right for military families. let's do what's right for america. let's do it together

3:38:08 to 3:38:21( Edit History Discussion )

Harry Reid: and enact medicare improvement for patients and providers act. mr. reid: mr. president, i will use leader time. the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: it may have taken one flourish with

3:38:21 to 3:38:31( Edit History Discussion )

Harry Reid: a pen to affix the name lyndon baines johnson to the law that created medicare in 1965 but that one pen strokeok created a program that has come to reflect a bedrock american principle: that all those

3:38:31 to 3:38:43( Edit History Discussion )

Harry Reid: seniors who worked hard and all those who need a helping hand will find themselves embraced by the care of a compassionate nation. though medicare was created by a democratic congress and democratic

3:38:43 to 3:39:01( Edit History Discussion )

Harry Reid: president, tnthat principle has always been anchored far too deep in our soil to have partisanship entangle. when the program has been threatened, democrats and republicans have risen to the t occasion

3:39:01 to 3:39:13( Edit History Discussion )

Harry Reid: to protect it. so it was last month when the house of representatives approved the doctor's fix by an overwhelming vote of 355-59. sofs last week when senator kennedy led -- so was last week when senator

3:39:13 to 3:39:30( Edit History Discussion )

Harry Reid: kennedy led a veto proof of democrats and 18 republicans voting "yes." so it was a couple of hours ago, as senator baus mentioned, when the house voted to override president bush's veto by a vote

3:39:30 to 3:39:43( Edit History Discussion )

Harry Reid: of 383-41. so it must be now as we follow suit to reject the veto and place this legislation into law. on the july day in 1965 when the president johnson signed the original medicare bill, he said

3:39:43 to 3:40:00( Edit History Discussion )

Harry Reid: this -- and i quote -- "just think, because of this document and the long years of struggle which so many have put into creating it in this town and 1,000 other towns just like it, there are men

3:40:00 to 3:40:09( Edit History Discussion )

Harry Reid: and women in pain who will now find ease. there are those alone and suffering who will now hear the sound of approaching footsteps coming to help." end of quote. there are those, mr. president, that

3:40:09 to 3:40:25( Edit History Discussion )

Harry Reid: president johnson in another place said, "there are those fearing the terrible darkness and despairing poverty. despite their long years of labor and expectation, will now look up to see the light

3:40:25 to 3:40:38( Edit History Discussion )

Harry Reid: of hope and realization. since the day president johnson handed the very first medicare card to president truman, hundreds of millions of senior citizens and people with disabilities have received their

3:40:38 to 3:40:57( Edit History Discussion )

Harry Reid: own card. each new card issued strengthens our commitment to the health and well-being of our most vulnerable. so it is now our turn to do our part, to renew the light of hope for those who need our

3:40:57 to 3:41:37( Edit History Discussion )

help the most: those people in their golden years, senior citizens in america who depend on medicare. the presiding officer: the question is: shall the bill pass? the objections of the president of the