mr. baca: thank you. the winners were the wounded warriors and the disabled vets who will get an opportunity to revamp their lives, enjoy golf and this is a match between the republicans and the democrats and i know that last year the republicans won and retained the cup then, but today the democrats ended up winning and we daning the cup. -- retaining the cup. so on behalf of all the democrats here and the players who participated, thank you very much. at this time i'd like to yield to ander crenshaw, my co-captain. the chair: the gentleman from florida is recognized. mr. crenshaw: i thank the gentleman for yielding. let the record reflect it's a small trophy that he just held up. but certainly want to congratulate the democratic team. it was a great day to make some friends among the serving members, it was great to see some of the former members come back and visit with them and as has been pointed out, the real winners were the wounded warriors and the organizations that work every day to help them re

mr. baca: mr. speaker, after a lifetime of service to the families and our nation, american seniors deserve the security of basic safety net like medicare and social security. sadly, the republican budget that the house approved in april puts the fundamental programs at risk. the republican budget will end guaranteed medicare coverage for seniors. i state, end guaranteed medicare coverage for seniors. cut benefits and turn control over to the insurance industry. double out-of-pocket costs for seniors over the next decade. from day one, the republican plan to end medicare will cost four million seniors -- toss four million seniors into the medicare prescription doughnut hole. and they'll have a co-pay reinstated for their annual wellness visit. seniors in my district understand that we must lower the deficit, but it should not be on the back of the poor or the disadvantaged. but they also know that it is wrong to end medicare so we can extend the tax breaks for the millionaires and billionaires. let

mr. baca: thank you very much, mr. speaker. next week marks the 45th anniversary of implementing medicare. on this occasion it is right that congress work together, and i state, that it is right that congress work together to protect and straighten medicare for our future generation. sadly instead of preserving medicare, my republican colleagues have approved a plan to destroy it. the republican budget privatizes medicare program, turning it -- control over to the insurance industries, ends medicare coverage for seniors, replacing it with a voucher system. doubles out-of-pocket medical costs for seniors. i ask my colleagues, where are your priorities? we should be creating jobs, helping middle class families. we should not be dismantling safety net programs like medicare and medicaid. let's stop the politics. let's work together. let's work on a plan to protect our seniors and be responsible to lower the deficit. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. for

mr. chairman. i am happy to have an announcement that's not quite as exciting as that which we've just been watching. however, this is the congressional women's softball team. and we're very excited and joe baca is an honorary member of the team. he's one of our coaches. anyway, debby wasserman schultz and i who are the co-captains, wanted to, number one, tell you all that we will be playing the washington news media tonight at 7:00 at watkins recreation park up at 12th and d street southeast and we invite everybody to come and cheer us on. mrs. emerson: we are going to win this year. we're good. and probably more than anything else, this has been a wonderful opportunity for us to really bond as friends and as colleagues, not in any partisan way, and we're just very excited and happy that we're playing tonight. we need your all's support. ms. wasserman schultz: mr. speaker, i want to thank all the women and our male coaches who have been practicing for three months two, or three times a weeks, at 7:00 in the morning, all to raise money for a great cause, for the young survival coalition which helps young women who are struggling with breast cancer or who have survived breast cancer. all of yo