Honorable Bill Thomas
United States Representative, California, Republican
Representative Thomas, of the Twenty-Second District of California, was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1978. He served in the California Assembly from 1974 to 1978. He chairs the House Ways and Means 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. This evening you are going to hear some very harsh rhetoric. But what I really want to do is remind everyone here that since Republicans became the majority in this House in 1995, there has been a…
