[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 162 (Thursday, October 19, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H10309]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




             WITH MALICE TOWARD NONE, WITH CHARITY FOR ALL

  (Mr. GUTIERREZ asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. GUTIERREZ. Mr. Speaker, today is a historic day. A day that House 
Republicans, to fulfill their unsatiable desire to give a tax cut to 
their wealthiest contributors, will try to slash Medicare by $300 
billion.
  We Democrats remember historic days. We remember when 30 years ago 
Lyndon Johnson and Harry Truman stood together and said, ``the time has 
come to guarantee health care for all of our seniors.''
  We feel as much pride in that day as Republicans should feel shame on 
this day. So maybe it is time for them to remember their history too. 
In 1865, facing a challenge far greater than rising Medicare costs, our 
greatest President--a Republican President--stated that we would heal 
our Nation's wounds ``with malice toward none, with charity for all.''
  I say to my colleagues in the majority--slashing $300 billion from 
seniors' health care for a tax giveaway to your rich friends is malice, 
pure and simple. With malice toward none, with charity for all. How 
empty and distant those words seem to the party of Abraham Lincoln 
today.

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