[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 142 (Wednesday, September 13, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H8815]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




        REPUBLICAN BUDGET UNDERMINES SENIORS' ECONOMIC SECURITY

  (Mr. HINCHEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HINCHEY. Mr. Speaker, I think what the American people want is 
economic opportunity and economic security. Let us just talk a minute 
about correct security. One of the things that the Republican budget 
does is to undermine one of the most effective aspects of that economic 
security that has been established in this country over the last 30 
years. That is the Medicare Program. Speaker Gingrich last Sunday would 
have us believe that his cuts amount to only $7, but his own budget 
office tells us that those cuts, the amount of money coming out of 
seniors' pockets, will be as much as $56 a month.
  Mr. Speaker, we know what is going on here. They do not like the 
Medicare Program. They want to privatize it. They want to put it on 
vouchers and coupons so people will go back to the old days when they 
did not have any economic security, when they had to worry about health 
care and when families had to worry about their elderly parents and 
grandparents. Let us not do that. Let us not balance this budget on the 
backs of the senior citizens of this country in order to give a tax 
break to the wealthiest people who do not need it and most of whom have 
the good sense not to want it.


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