[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 116 (Tuesday, July 18, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H7082]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


    REPUBLICANS STAND FOR CHANGE, DEMOCRATS STAND FOR THE STATUS QUO

  (Mr. JONES asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. JONES. Mr. Speaker, we, the Republican majority, are committed to 
preserving, protecting, and improving the Medicare system. However, the 
other side continues to play the political games and ignores the 
writing on the wall. The Clinton Medicare trustees stated that the 
program will be bankrupt by the 2002. The fact that the system is going 
bankrupt makes our efforts more important than ever before.
  Our plan gives States the flexibility needed to design effective, 
innovative health programs tailored to meet the special needs of 
individual citizens. We will not cut the Medicare Program, instead our 
proposal includes a spending increase of $340 billion over the next 7 
years--a 34-percent increase in Medicare spending per retiree.
  We will clean up the waste and inefficiency in the system and provide 
an improved system for current and future generations.
  Bottom line, we stand for change, the Democrats stand for the status 
quo.

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