[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 124 (Friday, July 28, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H7921]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


 WORDS FROM REPUBLICANS CANNOT HIDE THEIR INTENTIONS REGARDING MEDICARE

  (Mr. OBEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. OBEY. Mr. Speaker, it seems to me that we hear some quite cynical 
remarks about Medicare this morning. Our friends on the Republican side 
of the aisle say they want to save Medicare, but their actions 
demonstrate they want to shred it. They say they want to save Medicare, 
but they took $90 billion out of it in their recent budget resolution. 
They say that they want to save Medicare, but when the Congress first 
passed it, they first tried to stop it, and only after they could not 
stop it did some of them vote for it. Their own majority leader, the 
gentleman from Texas [Mr. Armey], has indicated, very frankly, that if 
this world were shaped to his image, there would be no room in an 
entrepreneurial society for Medicare.
  Pardon me, Mr. Speaker, but their words cannot hide their intentions. 
America's senior citizens know that.

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