[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 122 (Wednesday, July 26, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H7707]
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                          PRESERVING MEDICARE

  (Mr. TATE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. TATE. Mr. Speaker, I have not done a 1-minute on the floor for 
probably several weeks, but I can be silent no longer.
  Every day I turn on and hear the words ``mean-spirited'' and 
``callous.'' I am coming to believe that if those words were eliminated 
from the minority party's vocabulary, there would truly be silence on 
that side of the well.
  Nothing could be more callous and more mean-spirited than to sit back 
and do nothing. All I can think of, Mr. Speaker, is retirees back in my 
district that are on fixed incomes. Grandmothers and grandfathers 
across this country that are concerned about Medicare.
  What do the Democrats do? They do nothing. Absolutely nothing. They 
have even ignored their own President's report that came out and stated 
clearly that Medicare would go broke in 7 years if we do nothing. The 
American people deserve more than scare tactics from liberal Democrats. 
The American people want to preserve and to protect Medicare.

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