[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]


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                 BUDGET RESOLUTION A PRODUCT OF SECRECY

  (Mr. DOGGETT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DOGGETT. Mr. Speaker, this morning around 1 or 1:15 a budget 
resolution was adopted by the House Committee on the Budget. It is the 
product of secrecy, of task forces meeting, working as a shadow 
government in this Capitol, to design a budget resolution. And if you 
had sat there from 10 in the morning until a little after 1 in the 
morning the next day as I have, you would understand why it has been 
necessary to conceive this budget resolution in secret, because the 
members of the Republican caucus have again broken their word.
  They have broken their word about having an open House, which they 
promised on the first day. And the reason it was so essential for them 
to operate in secrecy is that they are breaking their word to seniors 
across this country. They are coming after Medicare to the tune of 
almost $300 billion in cuts, directly out of the pockets of American 
seniors.
  Finally, after being pressed, they admitted that copayments are going 
up for American seniors and that many seniors will see a cut in their 
benefits. They just do not know who has been marked for the most pain.

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