[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 113 (Thursday, July 13, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H6918]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


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        WAIT TILL YOU SEE WHAT THEY ARE GOING TO DO TO MEDICARE

  (Mr. ENGEL asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ENGEL. Mr. Speaker, what have our Republican friends done since 
they have taken over Congress? They said they would give tax breaks to 
the rich. They kept their promise. They said they would increase 
defense spending boondoggles. They kept their promise. They said they 
would help the rich and powerful and told them that they would continue 
corporate welfare. They kept their promise.
  But what have they done to the rest of us? They told senior citizens 
they would not touch Social Security or Medicare. They broke their 
promise. They told the students that they would not touch student loans 
or aid to education. They broke their promise. They told our veterans 
they would not harm their COLA's and their veterans' health care 
benefits. They broke their promise. They told the middle class they 
would not hurt the middle class. They broke their promise. They told 
the Nation's schoolchildren they would not rob school lunches, take 
them out of their mouth. They broke their promise.
  In short the Republicans kept their promises to the rich and 
powerful. They just broke their promise to everyone else.
  I say to my colleagues, ``Wait until you see what they're going to do 
to Medicare.''


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