[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 154 (Friday, September 29, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H9676]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     SAVE MEDICARE FROM BANKRUPTCY

  (Mrs. SEASTRAND asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. SEASTRAND. Madam Speaker, here is a picture of the new symbol of 
the liberal Democrat Party. Yes, it is an ostrich with its head in the 
sand.
  This symbolizes the Democrats response to saving Medicare from 
bankruptcy. When told back in April by their own Medicare trustees in 
the Clinton administration that Medicare would go bottom up in 7 years, 
Democrats buried their heads in the sand.
  Madam Speaker, it really is a shame that the party that devised 
Medicare in the 1960's would abandon it in the 1990's. Democrats have 
not put forward one idea on how to preserve Medicare, not one. Where is 
their plan? This is irresponsible and, in the words of the Washington 
Post, ``wrong.''
  Yesterday, former Democrat Congressman Tim Penny wrote that Democrats 
should be in the forefront of saving Medicare from bankruptcy. Instead, 
like this ostrich, they have buried their heads in the sand.

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