[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 143 (Wednesday, October 5, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: October 5, 1994]
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  DEMOCRATS CONTINUE TO FRIGHTEN ELDERLY REGARDING GOP CONTRACT WITH 
                                AMERICA

  (Mr. HOKE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HOKE. Mr. Speaker, the politics of fear, intimidation, and 
deception continue, with my colleagues on the other side of the aisle 
continuing to scare elderly people into believing that somehow the 
Republican contract with America would cut Social Security, or 
otherwise impair the elderly. It is absolutely not true. Not only is it 
not true, but in fact, we have already done that in this Congress. We 
did it with the 1993 budget deal.
  If we look at it, we have cuts in Social Security and Medicare from 
the 1993 Clinton budget. In 1994 we had cuts in Social Security of 
$1.93 billion; in 1995, $4.597 billion; in 1996, $5 billion; 1997, $6 
billion; in 1998, $6.7 billion; a total of $24.5 billion in Social 
Security cuts; Medicare, a total of $56 billion.
  Let me repeat that. This is the Clinton budget of 1993. Not one 
single Republican member of this Congress voted for that budget. It was 
passed by Democrats.

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