The chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip each, to five minutes t in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. The chair recognizes the gentleman from North Carolina, mr. Butterfield, for five minutes. Mr. Utterfield thank you, speaker. Mr. Speaker, with the stroke of a pen, 49 years ago today several weeks after i finished high school, thenpresident Lyndon Johnson signed into law two of the largest and most important healthrelated programs the country had ever seen, medicare and medicaid. Those programs were created nearly half a century ago because our nations leaders saw time and time again the hopelessness of people who had no way to provide the most basic level of health care for themselves and their families. It was president harry truman ho initially conceived our Health Care Safety net for struggling americans. Nearly 70 years ago truman
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