[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 142 (Wednesday, September 13, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H8814]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                        REPUBLICAN MEDICARE CUTS

  (Ms. DeLAURO asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, it appears that the architect of the 
Republican revolution has not seen the blueprint.
  On Sunday, Speaker Gingrich stated that the Republican Medicare cuts 
would mean only 7 dollars in increased monthly premiums for Medicare 
recipients, but yesterday Republican staff corrected the Speaker and 
admitted that their plan would increase Medicare premiums by $32 a 
month, not the $7 a month the Speaker claimed.
  The Republican-controlled Congressional Budget Office estimates that 
the GOP plan will actually increase premiums by $56.50 a month.
  Why all the confusion? Because, it is not just the American people 
who are being kept in the dark about the Republican party's plan to cut 
$270 billion from Medicare to finance a tax cut for the wealthy. The 
Republican leadership is also in the dark.
  If there is a GOP Medicare plan, it must be written in invisible ink, 
because nobody has seen it, not even the Speaker.

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