Honorable Ciro D. Rodriguez
United States Representative, Texas, Democrat
Representative Rodriguez, of the Twenty-Eighth District of Texas, was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1997. He served on the Harlandale (Texas) School Board from 1975 to 1987 and in the Texas House of Representatives from 1987 to 1997. He is a member of the Armed Services Committee, the Resources Committee, and the Veterans’ Affairs Committee. The following is from the November 22, 2003, House floor debate on the conference report on H.R. 1, the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act. I rise to express my strong opposition to the Medicare Prescription Drug conference report that…
