Senate Proceeding 07-15-08 on Jul 15th, 2008 :: 2:17:09 to 2:25:52
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Hillary Clinton: to do that. mr. president, i yield the floor and note the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: | quorum call: a senator: madam president? madam president,

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Speech By: Hillary Clinton

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Hillary Clinton: i ask that the call of the quorum be rescinded. the presiding officer: without objection. mrs. clinton: thank you, madam president. madam president, there are two very important matters that will be coming

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Hillary Clinton: before the senate this afternoon. the first is the legislationla that we are now considering to strengthen our efforts to fight hiv-aids, tuberculosis, and malaria. the second is the president's

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Hillary Clinton: veto of the medicare legislation. first, with respect to the important work that has been done that we are discussing on this floor of the united states to take a leadership role on behalf of those suffering

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Hillary Clinton: from hiv-aids, too berk khroe seus, and malaria around -- tuberculosis and malaria around the world. i am very proud that this legislatio n includes a portion of this bill that i introduced -- the pepfarfa

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Hillary Clinton: accountability and transparency act -- to monitor and improve the programs we fund so that s we know wha we're getting for the money we spend. that in effect we are looking for best practices so that

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Hillary Clinton: we can learn from what works and disctinue what doesn't work. it's not based on ideology or some kind of personal preference, but on evidence, on looking for the best evidence to determine how our

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Hillary Clinton: dollars can be used mor e smartly and making each dollar go as far as possible. i'm also pleased that this legislation focuses on the needs of women and girls. this has been neglected in the past, and

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Hillary Clinton: i call on my colleagues to stand against any efforts to undermine the bipartisan consensus to invest more in saving lives and demonstrating the best of american values in the eyes of people around the world.

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Hillary Clinton: this is one of the ways that we can leave with our values -- lead with our values and demonstrate clearly that the united states cares about people who are suffering, that we are seeking to find common

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Hillary Clinton: ground to alleviate that suffering, and that we are willing to stretch out our hands in partnership and friendship. this is an important piece of legislation. i look forward to it passing and being signed

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Hillary Clinton: into law. secondly, later today we willl consider the legislation which the president vetoed this morning. i find it hard to understand why the president did so. he clearly stood againstin both the doctors

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Hillary Clinton: of america and tndhe patients of america on behalf of the insurance companies of america.a. personally, i don't understand that kind of calculation. la and so, today we will be joining colleagues on

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Hillary Clinton: both sides of the aisle to stand against the cutting of reimbursements for f doctors who care for medicare recipients and standing up for making sure thereki is access to care for seniors, americans

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Hillary Clinton: with disabilities, and the men and women who serve in our military. couched by lofty goals and cloaked in misleading rhetoric, the president essentially vetoed health care for seniors, for terans, and for

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Hillary Clinton: americans with disabilities. it's a disgrace, but unfortunately it is not a surprise. this is a battle that has been waged ever since president johnson signed the medicare legislation inton law

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Hillary Clinton: 33 years ago this month and long before. and i he that today's veto and the narrow margin by which we will override it serves as a wakeup call. by seeking to undermine medicare, president bush and his allies

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Hillary Clinton: continue an unyielding, uncompromising, unrelenting, ideological crusade, a long twilight struggle to eviscerate medicare, social security, and a the means by which our government actually solves

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Hillary Clinton: problems for the people of our country. it really comes down to basic values and it comes down to our priorities as a nation. will you stand with our seniors, with our veterans, with our americans

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Hillary Clinton: with disabilities? will you stand with hospitals that are already forced to stretch their budgets to a limit? will you stand with the doctors who care for medicare recipients and are already struggling

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Hillary Clinton: to see more patients in less time every single day? will you stand with the people of this country who need a champion in the white house? i believe strongly that we have to override this veto. we've

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Hillary Clinton: got to make it clear to the hard-working physicians in america that we are with you, that we will help by investing in preventive medicine like screening, in health information technology which will limit

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Hillary Clinton: costs while improving care, in new measures that will lead to improved quality, and by actually seeing what works and what doesn't work. we know that the cuts in reimbursements that the president and his

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Hillary Clinton: allies are seeking will also affect cuts in reimbursement and care that is accessible to military families. you see, medicare sets the t standards for payments that are used by tricare. tricare is

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Hillary Clinton: the program that cares for our veterans, cares for active duty, cares for family members. and tricare uses the medicare formula for physician payments. i've just finished an incredible experience,

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Hillary Clinton: crisscrossing our country over the past 17 months, and i was inspired each and every day by the resolve and the resilience of the american people. i learned a lot. and one of the lessons that i learned is

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Hillary Clinton: that americans are ready, even eager to have a government that actually works again, that solves problems, that produces results. 33 years ago our government did that. it wasn't easy, and it literally took

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Hillary Clinton: years, even decades, to achieve. but when lyndon johnson signed the medicare law, he sent a very clear signal to those who worried about whether they would be able to afford to take care of themselves

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Hillary Clinton: or take care of their parents and their grandparents, that health care will be available to you. now, we have a lot of work to do in the next years to make sure that medicare fulfills its promise.

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Hillary Clinton: and i look forward to working with like-minded allies on both sides of the aisle to make it clear that we will stand behind medicare. we'll need to be pho modernized, we'll have h to make changes so

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Hillary Clinton: it works better so it emphasizes prevention. but you don't start by penalizing the people who take care of those who are on medicare today. the doctors and nurses of america do heroic work every single

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Hillary Clinton: day. our hospitals stand ready to care for those in need. so let's not make it more difficult to actually deliver the services that will save lives, ameliorate suffering, extend the quality of life.e.

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Hillary Clinton: so,so madam president, i'm hoping that when this vote is held in a few hours, we will have a resounding repudiation of president bush's veto and send a s message not only to doctors and nurses

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Hillary Clinton: and other health care professionals, but to the people of our country that we are better than this, and we are going to stand with you to make sure you have the health care that you deserve under the

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program that has meant so much to so many for so long: medicare. thank you, madam president, and i note the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: