[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 143 (Thursday, September 14, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H8913]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                       ``DON'T ASK, WON'T TELL''

  (Mrs. SCHROEDER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. SCHROEDER. Mr. Speaker, well, now we know what their plan is for 
Medicare. It is, ``Don't ask, won't tell.''
  They tell us they are going to save it, but they will not tell us one 
detail as to how they are going to save it. If they have got such a 
harmless way of saving it, why do they not tell us?
  Mr. Speaker, there was just a 4-hour Republican conference in which 
they were telling them all sorts of things, but we still do not have 
one detail.
  What do we hear we will find out? There is going to be 1 day of 
hearings. My word, there were days and days and days of hearings when 
this was put together.
  Yes, we have a way to save Medicare. We save it by not killing it. 
They do not want us to know it is going to be killed. But when we ask 
them, when we ask them for one detail about Medicare, do not ask, 
because they will not tell. They just come down and scream politics, 
old order, and throw names around, but they will not throw the first 
fact out.
  Stop throwing names around. Stop calling names. Throw facts out. That 
is what we want.

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