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SEN. MCCAIN: That was --
MR. BROKAW: Senator McCain.
SEN. MCCAIN: The three priorities were health
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MR. BROKAW: The three, health -- health care,
energy, and
entitlement reform -- Social Security and
Medicare. In what order
will you put them in terms of priorities?
SEN. MCCAIN: I -- I think you can work on all
three at once,
Tom. I think it's very important that we
reform our entitlement
programs. My friends, we are not going to be
able to provide the same
benefit for present-day workers that we are
going -- that present-day
retirees have today.
We're going to have to sit down across the
table, Republican and
Democrat, as (he ?) did in 1983 between
Ronald Reagan and Tip O'Neill.
I know how to do that. I have a clear record
of reaching across the
aisle, whether it be Joe Lieberman or Russ
Feingold or Ted Kennedy or
others. That's -- that's my clear record.
We can -- we can work on nuclear power
plants, build a whole
bunch of them, create millions of new jobs.
We -- we have to have all
of the above -- alternate -- alternative
fuels, wind, tide, solar,
natural gas, clean coal technology. All of
these things we can do as
Americans, and we can take on this mission,
and we can overcome it.
My friends, some of this $700 billion ends up
in the hands of
terrorist organizations.
As far as health care is concerned, obviously
everyone is
struggling to make sure that they can afford
their premiums and that
they can have affordable and available health
care. That's the next
issue.
But we can do them all at once. There's no --
and we have to do
them all at once. All three you
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