[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 81 (Tuesday, May 16, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H4966]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                               BASIC MATH

  (Mr. BARTLETT of Maryland asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend is remarks.)
  Mr. BARTLETT of Maryland. Mr. Speaker, I spent 24 years of my life as 
a teacher, and I thought for a few moments today we might go back to 
school.
  Here, as you might remember from kindergarten, is a number line. What 
we were supposed to learn from that was that 3 is greater than 2 and 6 
is greater than 4. But apparently some of us are slow learners.
  As you will see from this next graph, these are the numbers for 
Medicare payments per recipient. On a scale that is uninterrupted so it 
is not distorted, as a result of the Republican plan to balance the 
budget. Please notice that we are now spending $4,700 per recipient in 
Medicare. By the year 2002, that will increase to $6,300. That is 
bigger than, larger than $4,700.
  Let us see if we have got it right now: $6,300 is bigger than $4,700. 
So Republicans are not cutting Medicare.


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