The speaker pro tempore the house will be the speaker pro tempore pursuant to House Resolution 600, the amendment in the nature of a substitute shall be considered as adopted and the bill as amended shall be considered read. The bill shall be debatable for one hour, equally divided among and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the committee on energy and commerce and the chair and ranking minority member on the committee on ways and means. The gentleman from minnesota, mr. Paulsen, and the gentleman from michigan, mr. Levin, will each control 15 minutes. The chair recognizes the gentleman from minnesota. Mr. Paulsen i ask unanimous consent that all members have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and insert extrages you materials on the bill into the record. The speaker pro tempore without objection, so ordered. Mr. Paulsen i rise in support of h. R. 849, the protecting seniors access to medicare act this discussion is not new, members. Republica
[applause] thank you very much. Thank you. My name is joe biden. I am jills husband. [laughter] jill and i want to thank you for the wonderful welcome. We are both here for a simple reason, and i mean this sincerely, to say thank you. So many of you in this audience have been my friends for such a long time. I was a 29yearold kid. The first speech i ever made on the senate floor, i stood between tom mcintyres desk and another desk its a long story, but anyway, i go back a long time and its great pleasure to get to know so many people. We know, finally youve earned the title granite state. You have four women running the show. [applause] thank god for small favors. All right. The amazing thing is i campaigned for all of them and they won in spite of it. I would also like to echo what joe said. Its so nice to be back here again among old friends that weve known for such a long time. I want to thank everybody for supporting us through our administration, through our tough time with bo, an
For such a long, long time. I was a 29 year old kid. The first speech on the senate, i stood in between tom mcintyres desk and another desk it is a long story, anyway. I look back at that time and it has been a great pleasure to get to know so many people. And we know, we know finally you have earned the title granite state. You have 4 women running the show. [applause] mr. Biden that is solid. Sega god for small favors. All right. The amazing thing [laughter] thank you. You know, it is so nice to be back here again among so many old friends we have known for such a long time and i want to thank everybody for porting us through the throughout administration, through our tough time with beau and really, it has been our honor, such an honor to serve the people of this nation. Thank you. [applause] mr. Biden i would say to john like sounfortunately, many in the audience the thing i was not going to say, but jill said it, so many of you were so good to our beau, and the way in which you wr
For such a long, long time. I was a 29 year old kid. The first speech on the senate, i stood in between tom mcintyres desk and another desk it is a long story, anyway. I look back at that time and it has been a great pleasure to get to know so many people. And we know, we know finally you have earned the title granite state. You have 4 women running the show. [applause] mr. Biden that is solid. Sega god for small favors. All right. The amazing thing [laughter] thank you. You know, it is so nice to be back here again among so many old friends we have known for such a long time and i want to thank everybody for porting us through the throughout administration, through our tough time with beau and really, it has been our honor, such an honor to serve the people of this nation. Thank you. [applause] mr. Biden i would say to john like sounfortunately, many in the audience the thing i was not going to say, but jill said it, so many of you were so good to our beau, and the way in which you wr
For such a long, long time. I was a 29 year old kid. The first speech on the senate, i stood in between tom mcintyres desk and another desk it is a long story, anyway. I look back at that time and it has been a great pleasure to get to know so many people. And we know, we know finally you have earned the title granite state. You have 4 women running the show. [applause] mr. Biden that is solid. Sega god for small favors. All right. The amazing thing [laughter] thank you. You know, it is so nice to be back here again among so many old friends we have known for such a long time and i want to thank everybody for porting us through the throughout administration, through our tough time with beau and really, it has been our honor, such an honor to serve the people of this nation. Thank you. [applause] mr. Biden i would say to john like sounfortunately, many in the audience the thing i was not going to say, but jill said it, so many of you were so good to our beau, and the way in which you wr