[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 148 (Thursday, September 21, 1995)]
[House]
[Pages H9365-H9366]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       MEDICARE CUTS FOR TAX CUTS

  (Mr. PALLONE asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PALLONE. Mr. Speaker, today is Thursday, September 21, and we 
still have no Medicare plan from Speaker Gingrich and the House 
Republican leadership.
  As you know, we were supposed to have it yesterday, and today was 
supposed to be 1 day of hearings before the House Committee on Ways and 
Means on the plan. Instead, the meeting was delayed. It is now 
scheduled for tomorrow, and we still have no Medicare plan to outline 
how the Republican leadership is going to cut $270 billion from 
Medicare over the next 7 years.
  The Democrats feel very strongly there should be at least 4 weeks of 
hearings on Medicare and Medicaid. We tried to bring that up in the 
House yesterday and were denied that by the Republican majority. 
Instead, we are going to have to have our own alternative hearings 
starting tomorrow and going into next week just so that the 

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American people can find out what the Republican plan is for cutting 
Medicare and Medicaid, how they are going to implement it, and how they 
are going to figure out what they are going to do to prevent the fact, 
to prevent all the tax cuts for Medicare cuts.

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