[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 78 (Thursday, May 11, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H4798]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                               TIME WARP

  (Mr. CHRYSLER asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. CHRYSLER. Mr. Speaker, my colleagues on the other side of the 
aisle are caught in a time warp.
  They are still thinking like the Congress of old, where through the 
magic of baseline budgeting, Democrats could claim they were cutting 
spending when actually they were spending more than ever.
  Now they come to the floor and claim that Republicans are cutting 
Medicare, when the cold, hard facts are just the opposite.
  As you can see by this chart, the per capita expenditure in Medicare 
will increase from $4,700 to $6,300 over the next 7 years.
  In Democrat parlance, that is a cut, but to most Americans that is a 
significant increase.
  Coupled with our reforms, which will weed out waste and fraud, we 
will protect, improve, and preserve Medicare far into the next century.
  Mr. Speaker, House Democrats who come to the floor today will 
continue to attack Republicans for cutting Medicare. But as this chart 
shows, the truth is far different from the Democrat version of reality.

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