[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 61 (Tuesday, April 9, 2019)]
[House]
[Page H3140]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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                       HEALTHCARE AND THE BUDGET

  (Mr. WOODALL asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WOODALL. Mr. Speaker, you have heard in the last round of 60-
second comments a sense of urgency around healthcare. I share that 
sense of urgency, as I know everybody on my side of the aisle does.
  But for the next 1 hour, Mr. Speaker, we are going to be talking 
about what purports to be the House budget, the budget that would tell 
us what our Medicaid priorities are, the budget that would tell us how 
we are going to save Medicare, the budget that would tell us how we are 
going to protect Social Security, and the budget that would tell us 
what our values are as a nation. That is what the law requires: that we 
bring such a document to the floor and that we do it by April 15.
  But for the next hour, Mr. Speaker, what you are going to hear is 
that the House is producing no such budget, that the House is silent on 
protecting Medicaid, silent on protecting Medicare, and silent on 
protecting Social Security.
  We can do better, as my colleagues have challenged us to do. It is 
going to take a partnership, though, not empty accusations.

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