[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 148 (Thursday, September 21, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H9366]
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             INTRODUCTION OF THE MEDICARE PRESERVATION ACT

  (Mr. HOKE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. HOKE. Mr. Speaker, today being introduced in the House of 
Representatives is the Medicare Preservation Act, a comprehensive plan 
for a better Medicare.
  What you have heard from the other side and what you hear repeatedly 
is this notion there have not been hearings or there will not be 
hearings. It is simply not true.
  The fact is, and everybody knows it, that we have been dealing with 
this problem now for at least 3 years, that it is clear the trustees of 
the Medicare trust fund have said the trust fund is going broke. We 
have to do something about it. We have to do something about it now.
  There has been voluminous testimony, numerous, innumerable hearings, 
tens of thousands of pages of evidence that has been given, and that 
somehow this subject that has been aired as exhaustively as any subject 
has been in the United States in the past 3 years has not gotten 
hearings is absolutely ridiculous. It is untrue.
  What we will do, and what we are going to do, and what the American 
people expect us to do, is to preserve, protect, and strengthen the 
Medicare Program.

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