[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 126 (Tuesday, August 1, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H8076]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 DEMAGOGUERY AND DECEPTION ON MEDICARE

  (Mrs. SEASTRAND asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. SEASTRAND. Mr. Speaker, this weekend on ``Meet the Press'' the 
minority leader referred to this document as a hoax. This is the 
Medicare trustees' report. It was not written by conservatives, it was 
not written by Republicans, but was written by the very people who run 
Medicare, who are charged with administering the program. It is even 
signed by three of the President's Cabinet Secretaries: Robert Rubin, 
Robert Reich, and Donna Shalala. In case the minority leader had not 
noticed, none of the aforementioned are conservative or Republican. 
Indeed, most Washington insiders would consider them liberal Democrats.
  What is the problem? Could it be that there is a huge split in the 
Democrat Party? That is part of it, but I think there is something more 
going on. This report undercuts the minority leader's effort to scare 
the American public about Medicare. Mr. Speaker, it is truly sad that 
the liberals in Congress are more concerned about demagoguery and 
deception than about saving Medicare for our children and our 
grandchildren.

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