[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 153 (Thursday, September 28, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H9596]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




      REPUBLICAN MEDICARE PLAN DETAILS DELAYED UNTIL COLUMBUS DAY

  (Mr. DOGGETT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DOGGETT. Well, the gentlewoman from Ohio [Ms. Pryce] can call it 
broccoli if she wants to, but it is still a cut and the Republicans are 
still unwilling to level with the American people on these cuts. Now 
they come forward and tell us they will delay all the way to Columbus 
Day before they give us any details. It is incredible, but maybe it is 
not inconsistent. After all, Columbus set out on a voyage not knowing 
where he was going. He did not know where he was when he got there , 
and he did it all with somebody else's money.
  Our Republican friends are a little like that, using money for 
seniors to pay for a tax break cruise for the rich. As they dismantle 
Medicare to fund their tax breaks for the rich, there is one thing that 
is not similar, they have not discovered middle America. They have 
abandoned it. With the havoc they are wreaking with Medicare, maybe 
they should wait from Columbus Day to Halloween or perhaps, better yet, 
how about April Fool's Day?

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