[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 119 (Friday, July 21, 1995)]
[House]
[Pages H7383-H7384]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


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                               MEDISCARE

  (Mrs. SCHROEDER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)

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  Mrs. SCHROEDER. Madam Speaker, the other side of the aisle keeps 
standing up and talking about MediScare, MediScare. The Democrats are 
scaring people. Well, the Democrats are not scaring people, it is their 
side of the aisle that scares people.
  Luckily the American people have two ears and a brain. When they hear 
the other side of the aisle constantly saying the Medicare trust fund 
is in trouble, the Medicare trust fund is in trouble, so we are going 
to cut it $274 billion, would that not scare you? Whoever said that you 
are going to help a trust fund by gutting a trust fund? Then they get 
angry when they find that the reason they are gutting the trust fund, 
the reason they are taking money out of their trust fund is to plug 
holes in the budget caused by the huge tax breaks for the fat cats that 
funded their campaign. That would scare me. That should scare you.
  I think the American people are right on. When they have 1.4 percent 
taken out of their check every single paycheck and their employer 
adding the same thing to the trust fund, they want that trust fund to 
deal with future needs of seniors, not to help fat cats be able to bail 
out of the tax system.


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