[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 82 (Wednesday, May 17, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H5090]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




         PLAYING WITH REALITY WILL CATCH UP WITH THE DEMOCRATS

  (Mr. EMERSON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. EMERSON. Mr. Speaker, I have listened to the 1-minutes this 
morning, and I do not usually make 1-minute speeches. However, I am 
perplexed by what I have heard. The Democrats have no budget plan of 
their own, none. They do not have one. They will not cooperate with any 
attempt to reform Medicare on a bipartisan basis. They stand here and 
rail about Republican cuts, cuts, cuts. There are not any cuts. To 
Democrats, restraining the rate of growth is a cut. The American public 
ought to know that. Such playing with reality will, indeed, catch up 
with them.

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