[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 147 (Wednesday, September 20, 1995)]
[House]
[Pages H9254-H9255]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 MORE TIME NEEDED FOR MEDICARE HEARINGS

  (Mr. DOGGETT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DOGGETT. Mr. Speaker, it is September 20 and another day has 
passed, and not one Republican has been willing to come to the floor of 
this House and level with the American people by spelling out the 
details of how far they plan to reach into the pockets of American 
seniors and cut Medicare. I have come to the conclusion it is because 
most of them do not have the slightest idea. They just know they are on 
a mission for Newt to cut $270 billion out of Medicare, and they do not 
want the details to get in the way.
  Mr. Speaker, we are told that this afternoon they are going to 
finally spell out some of the details at some staff briefing, and then 
they will have a 1-day stacked hearing on it tomorrow, all that the 
American people will get to see in hearings on this plan.
  They spent 28 days on Whitewater. Why just have 1 day, unless it is 
to whitewash this bad Republican cut in Medicare?
  Mr. Speaker, I think as long as the Republicans are unwilling to have 
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genuine bipartisan discussion
 in hearings, as we have proposed with extended hearings, there is no 
reason for this House to meet. It ought to adjourn until the 
Republicans begin a real bipartisan discussion of how to reform 
Medicare.

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