[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 66 (Tuesday, May 24, 1994)]
[House]
[Page H]
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[Congressional Record: May 24, 1994]
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                         LOGAN'S RUN REVISITED

  (Mr. EWING asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. EWING. Madam Speaker, there once was a science fiction movie 
named ``Logan's Run.'' The premise of the movie was that once a person 
reached the age of 30, that person was exterminated.
  You have to wonder what the Clinton administration's goal might be.
  It won't support the repeal of the earnings test limit on senior 
citizens.
  It proposes a plan to make seniors pay more for social security.
  And now, apparently, it would have the health care system pay less to 
fight diseases that kill older Americans.
  Listen to these words of Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders, in 
justifying what the administration's priorities are:

       Most of the people that die with heart disease and cancer 
     are our elderly population, you know, and we all will 
     probably die with something sooner or later.

  Madam Speaker, older Americans have a vital contribution to make to 
our society. We should not make them the victims of big expensive 
government.

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