[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 87 (Wednesday, May 24, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H5486]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                    HEART SURGERY IN THE OTHER BODY

  (Mr. DOGGETT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. DOGGETT. Mr. Speaker, perhaps my colleague from Arizona had best 
direct his remarks to his Republican colleagues in the U.S. Senate. You 
see, yesterday they did a little heart surgery over in the U.S. Senate. 
Yes, my colleague from Texas, Phil Gramm, said the heart, the very 
heart of this budget resolution was a tax cut for the privileged.


                         parliamentary inquiry

  Mr. LINDER. Mr. Speaker, I have a parliamentary inquiry.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Bonilla). The gentleman will state it.
  Mr. LINDER. Mr. Speaker, is it appropriate under the rules to address 
specific actions taken in the other body?
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair advises Members that they should 
avoid references to Members of the other body.
  Mr. DOGGETT. Yesterday the U.S. Senate chose to perform heart 
surgery. Sixty-nine Members, including 23 Republicans in that body, 
decided to remove from the budget resolution any tax cut for the 
privileged. That is good news for Americans. We are still not there. We 
still do not have a reasonable budget resolution, but the fact that 
that heart surgery occurred over there in the Senate with joint 
bipartisan participation to add some reason to the budget resolution 
speaks volumes for Medicare recipients, speaks volumes for young people 
in this country, certainly speaks to the needs of Tina Henderson and 
her daughter Erica in my district who stand to lose substantially on 
student loans and student assistance, if the budget resolution the 
House passed is ever written into law.

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