[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 147 (Wednesday, September 20, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H9254]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


            WASHINGTON POST SUPPORTS REPUBLICANS ON MEDICARE

  (Mr. HOKE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HOKE. Mr. Speaker, I do not normally go around quoting the 
Washington Post, because normally it does not agree with the way I see 
things, being a liberal paper of record. But look what they have said 
just 2 days ago about exactly what my friend from Ohio, prior speaker, 
was just talking about. It is called medagogues.

       Newt Gingrich and Bob Dole accused the Democrats and their 
     allies yesterday of conducting a campaign based on distortion 
     and fear. They are right. That is precisely what the 
     Democrats are doing. It is pretty much all they are doing, 
     and it is crummy stuff.

  Crummy stuff. Those are tough words.
  It is crummy stuff. They are absolutely right. And that is exactly 
what we hear day after day after day from the other side of the aisle.
  The fact is, we are trying to simplify. We are preserving, saving, 
and improving Medicare and, again, that is exactly what they say.

       The Republicans have a plan. It is credible. It is gutsy, 
     it is inventive, it addresses a genuine problem that is only 
     going to get worse. What the Democrats have instead is a lot 
     of expostulation, TV ads, and scare talk. It is demagoguery 
     big time.

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