[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]




                         TAX AND SPEND OUTDATED

  (Mr. SOLOMON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SOLOMON. Mr. Speaker, I stand here this morning in shocked 
amazement when I ponder the word ``responsibility.'' I have just 
listened to most of the people on that side of the aisle stand up here 
and speak. As I look through this National Taxpayers Union Foundation 
rating of those that spend, spend, spend, and tax, tax, tax, almost 
every one of those on the other side who have stood up to speak appear 
on this list as the biggest taxers, the biggest spenders in this 
Congress.
   Mr. Speaker, when I came to this Congress 18 years ago, I came here 
as a small businessman with the responsibility to meet a payroll for 
100 different families. I still have this perspective. I received a 
phone call sitting in my office at 6:30 this morning from a senior 
citizen from my district and she said, ``Jerry, you have a 
responsibility to do what is right, to protect the Medicare system.''
  That is what we are here today to do, to keep it from going bankrupt. 
My colleagues know it is going bankrupt under its present course. We 
need to be responsible on this floor. We need to give people the 
freedom to choose their own doctors, and not to force some 
bureaucratically approved HMO down on them. Our program gives Americans 
this choice and saves the system from bankruptcy. My colleagues better 
start thinking about the word, ``responsibility'' because people are 
not going to continue to buy this tax, tax, tax, spend, spend, spend 
attitude around here any longer.

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