dr. gingrey and dr. fleming have just been referring to the $575 billion that was removed from medicare by the massive 2010 health care overhaul, you know, our budget, we restore those funds to medicare. that is a very, very important fact. we all voted here, as doctors, as caring legislators, as representatives of our districts to restore funding to medicare, to strengthen medicare, not to weaken it. that's the last thing we want to do and the last thing we can afford to do. so i think it's very important for the american people to understand that as things stand now, the medicare benefits that people are counting on are threatened in ways that they don't have to be. so, that's something that people should think about, people who cherish medicare, who receive medicare, and who have loved ones who depend on medicare, medicare is unfortunately, as our colleagues have discussed, it is running out of funds. when we think about payroll taxes and we hear a lot about payroll taxes in the news these days, payro

dr. gingrey from georgia. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. mr. gingrey: i thank the gentleman for yielding. physicians will see a 27.4% decrease in medicare payments if we fail to act before the new year. if congress fails to act, seniors may find that no physician in their area can afford to accept their medicare card. es that not the holiday cheer our seen -- that is not the holiday cheer our seniors deserve. as a medical doctor i prefer to be voting today on a permanent fix to this flawed physician payment formula known as s.g.r., but i don't have that choice. my choice is simple. vote for the physician fix or vote against it. vote in support of my former patients who need access to their doctor when they're sick or vote against them. vote to open up spectrum availability and bolster job creation within a growing telecommunications marketplace or vote against it. vote for timely approval of the keystone x.l. pipeline and, yes, create 20,000 immediate jobs along with domestic energy independence or vote against that. allow the e.p.a. to enact j

dr. gingrey, chairman of the subcommittee. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. gingrey: maybe the president will listen to the advice of the gentleman from ohio and sign up for public financing for his re-election efforts but mainly i rise to support me efforts of my friends mr. harper of mississippi and mr. cole of oklahoma, to reduce federal spending by ending public financing for campaign and terminate this assistance commission. presidential campaigns are becoming increasingly expense i have to the tune of hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars, the idea of having taxpayers contribute matching funds to them is lewd crowd. this practice -- ending this prackties would save $617 until over 10 years. as a member of the me on jurisdiction over e.a.c., the house administration committee, i've learned firsthand that this agency has outlived -- outlived its usefulness, mismanaged its resources, costing we the taxpayer millions of dollars a year. the election assistance commission's bu

dr. gingrey, chairman of the subcommittee. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. gingrey: maybe the president will listen to e advice of the gentleman from ohio and sign up for public financing for his re-election efforts but mainly i rise to support me effortof my friends mr. harper of missisppi and mr. cole of oklahoma, to reduce federal spending by ending public financing for campaign and terminate this assistance commission. presidential campaigns are becoming increasingly expense i have to the tune of hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars, the idea of having taxpayers contribute matching funds to them is lewd crowd. this practice -- ending this prackties would save $617 until over 10 years. as a member of the me on jurisdiction over e.a.c., the house administration committee, i've learned firsthand that this agency has olived -- outlived its usefulness, mismanaged its resources, costing we the taxpayer millions of dollars a year. the election assistance commission's budget req

dr. gingrey. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. mr. gingrey: mr. speaker, i thank the gentleman for yielding and i rise in opposition to this democrat motion to instruct the conferees, assuming that they're going to instruct the conferees to adopt the senate amendment. clearly this house has spoken in a bipartisan way with h.r. 3630. in fact, we will follow this debate with a resolution, h.res. 501, restating the provisions of h.r. 3630 which basically gives that tax break to 160 million middle income americans for a full year. it extends the unemployment insurance to 99 weeks, for those who have been out of work for more than six months, for an additional year, and last but certainly not least, mr. speaker, it gives the assurance of the physicians in this country that provide care for our blessed senior citizens under a medicare program that their reimbursement will not be cut 27%. no, indeed, it not only mitigates that cut, but it pluses it up by 1% for two full years. . this gives the doctors the ashunes they know they can continue to treat medi

dr. gingrey has been here longer and the greatest health care debate is this, with nine physicians in the u.s. congress in the 111th congress, not a single one of us was consulted about this health care bill. this was done on a completely partisan basis. i have to chuckle. i have never seen a republican or democratic heart attack in my life. i never operate odd a democrat or republican cancer in my life. these are people problems that affect all of us in this country and what we wanted to do as i stated, is to make the cost of care go down. this is not going to do thfment look, this is very simple. and we will have to use a different time, because it is so detailed. but just very briefly, this is how this works. 575 billion taken out, three million seniors a year going into medicare, reaching medicare age and this group of bureaucrats up here apointed -- i don't want them apointed by a democrat or republican. congress ought to be accountable and accountable to the american people, not push it off to bureaucrats who are going to bush it off and say we can't do anything. because when you ha

dr. gingrey from georgia. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. mr. gingrey: i thank the gentleman for yielding. physicians will see a 27.4% decrease in medicare payments if we fail to act before the new year. if congress fails to act, seniors may find that no physician in their area can afford to accept their medicare card. es that not the holiday cheer our seen -- that is not the holiday cheer our seniors deserve. as a medical doctor i prefer to be voting today on a permanent fix to this flawed physician payment formula known as s.g.r., but i don't have that choice. my choice is simple. vote for the physician fix or vote against it. vote in support of my former patients who need access to their doctor when they're sick or vote against them. vote to open up spectrum availability and bolster job creation within a growing telecommunications marketplace or vote against it. vote for timely approval of the keystone x.l. pipeline and, yes, create 20,000 immediate jobs along with domestic energy independence or vote against that. allow the e.p.a. to enact j