[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 77 (Wednesday, May 10, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H4678]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    REPUBLICANS IN THE MEDICARE BOX

  (Mr. RICHARDSON asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. RICHARDSON. Mr. Speaker, Republicans are in a box. They are 
trying to divert attention from what they are trying to do to Medicare. 
They are cutting Medicare by $300 billion, and they do not know how to 
explain it.
  The reason is that they have to find a way to pay for their tax cuts 
for a tax cut that benefits 1 percent of the population making over 
$230,000 per year. That is not class warfare. Those are the facts.
  Here are the Medicare excuses: Another commission to study the 
problem, slow the growth of Medicare, tinker with the Medicare trust 
fund.
  Mr. Speaker, the facts are clear. They are cutting Medicare to pay 
for a tax cut for America's wealthy, the crown jewel of the Contract 
With America.


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