[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 106 (Thursday, August 4, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: August 4, 1994]
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                   ANOTHER DISASTER WAITING TO HAPPEN

  (Mr. DeLAY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DeLAY. Mr. Speaker, many, many years ago the Republicans warned 
the Democrats that the Social Security system was a disaster waiting to 
happen. Guess what? We were right. Social Security was a disaster 
waiting to happen. The Social Security trust fund is being raided by 
liberal politicians to pay for the runaway spending of this Government, 
and most Americans pay more in payroll taxes than they pay in income 
taxes.
  In the 1960's the Republicans warned the Democrats that if they 
approved the Medicare Program and ran up the deficit, in all different 
ways, then Medicare would drive up the cost of health care. You know 
what? We were right. Medicare is costing substantially more than what 
Democrats predicted it would, and it is driving up health care costs.
  And, guest what? Now the Democrats are saying, ``Trust we. Let's 
completely take the health care system of the United States and turn it 
upside down. And not only that, we are going to do it in just a few 
days. We're rewriting bills.''
  Every other day we get a new bill coming out, and they are asking us 
to take the newest one, a 1,600-page bill, and have Congress and the 
American people digest it in just a few days.
  Mr. Speaker, let us present it to the American people during the 
August recess and have them decide whether it is right or wrong.

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