[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 83 (Thursday, May 18, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H5236]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   REPUBLICAN PLAN WILL SAVE MEDICARE

  (Mr. BASS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. BASS. Mr. Speaker, when we began this debate yesterday or since 
we have begun this debate yesterday the debt has risen by $846 million. 
That is $846 million more that you and I and our children and our 
grandchildren are going to have to pay.
  We will see the other side all day long today produce props and 
photographs of individuals who will be affected by this so-called 
budget reduction, which is not a reduction unless you live inside the 
beltway.
  But I am here today in Congress for these people. Here today are my 
two children, Lucy and Jonathan. That is what it is all about today, 
because today is historic. The Republican Budget Committee is going to 
turn this budget around, and I would like to see the American people 
judge this Congress not by the harsh rhetoric and the hard choices that 
we will be making over the next couple of days but by the country and 
the government that we give to our children and our children's children 
long after we are gone.

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