that to me is bakley -- basically the lesson of jerry boyle's story.t a lot more fights than i won on this bill. i favored publicç option. i have no objection to single payer. i frankly didn't care as long as we got two things. as long as we covered as many people as possible and as long as we changed the rules of the game so that little people weren't squeezed by corporate giants called insurance companies. that's basically all i wanted. everything else is candy. i just want to thank you for the work that you did on this package and to thank everybody who voted for it and thank those who opposed it and raised constructive questions along the way. because the obligation each of us has is to make this baby work and to think through whether there have to be adjustments down the line, make certain we have plenty of oversight and especially make certain that we have a huge packages of our efforts to go after waste, fraud and abuse. because you have lots of >> in this -- lots of jerks had will try to take advantage of people and rip off customers and if we

between 1930 to 1938 jerry boyle represented my congressional district.ve republicans and when laureate became the mayor of new york he succeeded as the spokesman for the republicans in the house. and then he was beaten in 1938. my dad ran a separate club when i was much younger and jerry camel meat became a local judge and he came into our place one evening and we started talking and i finally asked him what beat you in 1938? he said senior citizens. i was strongly for social security and in my district, the seniors were against it. i said what on earth can you be talking about how can they be getting social security? of the seniors i know today. he said in those days it was different. in those days we had a social security as one of the alternatives which is a contributory program and then we have the townsend plan from california who didn't want to contradict he just went like the $100 a month welfare payment to every senior. he said we all knew that couldn't survive very long because the country doesn't like walters of he said i strongly supported soc