Whitehouse Calls for Better Solutions at Silver Lake Community Dinner

Whitehouse Calls for Better Solutions at Silver Lake Community Dinner
Shares Ideas to Improve Health Care Quality and Redeploy Troops from Iraq

At a pasta-and-meatballs dinner for Silver Lake Community residents last night in Providence, Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate Sheldon Whitehouse shared his views on the war in Iraq, health care and the new prescription drug program.

"The test for any government is whether it serves people and works to make things better - and right now, the Bush administration and the Republicans in Congress fail that test miserably," said Whitehouse. "When it comes to the quality of our health care system and giving our seniors a real prescription drug benefit that they understand and that doesn't get switched out from under them, we can do a lot better. When it comes to managing the war in Iraq and caring for Americans during natural disasters like Hurricane Katrina, we can do a lot better. I want to go to Washington as part of a Democratic majority in the Senate to clean up that mess down there and get government working for people again."

Whitehouse is hosting a series of community dinners all over the state to listen to Rhode Islanders' thoughts and ideas on a broad range of issues, including health care, retirement security, and the war in Iraq. This was the eighth in that series, following meetings for residents of East Providence on January 17, Woonsocket on January 30, Warwick on February 9, South County on February 19, Pawtucket on February 26, Cranston on March 13, and North Providence and Johnston on March 20.

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