Mr Lamb voted in favour of the increase in fees to £9,000 in December 2010 when he was a whip in the Conservative-Lib Dem coalition government.
The bill, known as the Children's Health and Medicare Protection Act, would block impending cuts in Medicare payments to doctors, giving them a modest increase in fees in each of the next two years while Congress tries to devise a new payment policy.
And we cannot accept the continuing increase in fees or the development of our unit costs," she said.
The 21 percent cut, which technically went into effect at the beginning of June, would be blocked by the legislation, which would provide $23 billion for a 2.2 percent increase in fees through the end of this year and an additional 1 percent next year.
"We cannot accept the continuing increase in fees or the development of our unit costs".
The planned increase in fees means the effective removal of higher education for working people (and, according to the Institute of Fiscal Studies, insignificant savings to the taxpayer).
— The day after the University of California Board of Regents approved a 32percentt increase in fees that are the equivalent of tuition, protests continued on several campuses, with students occupying buildings at Santa Cruz and Berkeley.
One downside is the possible increase in fees associated with external management of retirement savings; it creates another way for Wall Street to extract wealth from Main Street.
