[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 152 (Wednesday, September 27, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H9509]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




             ALLOW MEDICARE TRUSTEES TO REVIEW PLANNED CUTS

  (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, let me answer the prior speaker in the 
well. The trustees of Medicare said $89 billion was necessary to fix 
it, and so they are cutting $270 billion to save it. They only had 1 
day of hearings on this very important issue that affects 37 million 
people. They have had more hearings on the Chinese prison system that 
we cannot do anything about from here.
  Now, Mr. Speaker, it seems to me that as they wave the trustees 
report saying they needed to fix it, they better not do anything unless 
they run the new bill and the new proposal in front of the trustees. 
That is how we take it out of politics. Take the bill, I say to those 
on this side of the aisle, take the bill to save Medicare and put it in 
front of the trustees and see if they believe the $270 billion are 
really needed.
  I think what is happening here is they are trying to get the cake to 
the fat cats and the cuts to the middle class.

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