[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 72 (Wednesday, May 3, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H4514]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


          REPUBLICANS HAVE PROMISED MORE THAN THEY CAN DELIVER

  (Mr. MILLER of California asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MILLER of California. Mr. Speaker, Members of the House, the 
senior citizens of this country should be deeply concerned about the 
rumblings that they hear on the Republican side of the aisle.
  The Republicans have now come to face the fact that they cannot give 
tax cuts to the wealthy, balance the budget, and preserve Medicare, so 
now they are devising a plan by which they can make the cuts in 
Medicare to provide for the tax cuts for the wealthy.
  I think we have to ask ourselves, is this really what America 
expected at the time of election, that we would pass on massive tax 
cuts to the wealthiest people in this country and we would do it at the 
expense of the Medicare plan, the health safety net for millions of 
seniors who have nowhere other to turn for health care in this country? 
I am saying to the senior citizens of this country, keep your eyes open 
and your ears tuned to the news waves because what the Republicans have 
in store is nothing but bad for the Medicare system of this country.
  If they do not do that, what they have in store is to add another 
$150 billion in budget cuts to $1 out of every $3 that the Federal 
Government now spends, so they have run up against the cruel facts that 
they have promised more than they can deliver, and it looks like the 
beneficiaries of that will be the wealthy of the Nation, and the 
victims will be the health care of the senior citizens.


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