CSPAN Key Capitol Hill Hearings October 20, 2014
And there was an outcry from seniors. And seniors always vote. And that is very important. They did not like the rising cost of Prescription Drugs. Seniors use a lot of drugs, and it was not paid for, so you have to have an expansion of the government. Remember, we are going into 2004, president george w. Bush was up for reelection, and he was running against john kerry, and what happened was that the conservatives did not like the expansion of the drug benefits, and the democrats did not like the bill itself, and so by a large, you had the struggle to get 218 votes. It was called the longest ...
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