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To keep the government from going into further debt, prevent the bankruptcy of Medicare, and protect America’s seniors, U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, (R-TX), a member of the Senate Finance Committee, today led a group of nearly every member of the Senate Republican Conference in a letter to President Obama, stating that the Administration stands in violation of federal law, section 802 of P.L. 108-173, the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003. In the letter, Sen. Cornyn and his colleagues ask the President to comply with federal law by immediately submitting to Congress the Administration’s legislative proposal for addressing the Medicare funding warning issued in the 2010 Medicare Trustees’ Report.
“In 2008, the Bush Administration, in compliance with Section 802 of the MMA, submitted a legislative proposal to Congress, which was never acted upon. Your Administration, however, has failed to submit such a proposal for the last three years. This not only defies federal law but also abdicates your Administration’s responsibility to lead,” the Senators wrote.
Video of Senator Cornyn’s floor speech on the letter can be found here.
The text of the letter follows:
