[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 92 (Wednesday, June 7, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H5628]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                             MEDICARE CUTS

  (Mr. UNDERWOOD asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. UNDERWOOD. Mr. Speaker, under the guise of saving Medicare, the 
majority would make funding cuts that would have the effect of reducing 
benefits to Medicare recipients--and these funding cuts would be used 
to fund tax cuts that would primarily benefit the wealthy.
  This fiscal trickery will not fool the American people.
  We often hear of class warfare. Well, this majority has just given us 
generational warfare with its policies that make school children 
compete for school lunch funding with seniors on fixed incomes, whose 
Medicare funding in turn must compete with tax cuts for wealthy middle-
aged citizens.
  In this generational warfare the weapons are not missile launches but 
school lunches, and not stealth bombers but stealth tax cuts. And the 
greatest irony is that the generation that won World War II is now at 
risk with generational warfare being waged by this majority.
  We can do better, and we can do it without pitting the American 
people against each other.


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