[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 158 (Thursday, October 12, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H9903]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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                           MEDICARE SHIM-SHAM

  (Mr. HASTERT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HASTERT. Mr. Speaker, I have sat here this morning and listened 
to Member after Member on the other side trying to shim-sham the 
American people of what happened as far as Medicare. Well, I guess when 
you do not have a Medicare plan, I guess when you do not have an idea, 
you try to distort the issue. As a matter of fact, what you try to do 
is take some poor, innocent, old people and use them as your sham to 
bring them as a stage prop, to use the director of Information Services 
for the National Council of Senior Citizens, who gets almost $70 
million of their $74 million budget out of the taxpayers' pocket. I 
guess that is what you do to misinform the American people, to try to 
distort the issues.
   Mr. Speaker, what we are trying to do in Medicare is to preserve the 
Medicare system that the President's own trust fund said is going 
broke. What we are trying to do is give the people of this country a 
choice and to preserve a system, because they deserve a better way.

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