[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 162 (Thursday, October 19, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H10313]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




              SOLVE MEDICARE PROBLEMS IN A BIPARTISAN WAY

  (Mr. BARTLETT of Maryland asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BARTLETT of Maryland. Mr. Speaker, the Medicare trustees have 
told us that Medicare is going bankrupt. Let me quote from their own 
words: ``We strongly recommend that the crisis presented by the 
financial condition of the Medicare trust funds be urgently addressed 
on a comprehensive basis.''
  This is a quote from the Medicare trustees. Six of them, four of them 
appointed by President Clinton, three of them Cabinet-level positions. 
We believe that their recommendation should be followed, and we are 
doing that.
  We really need to address the Medicare crisis. Please join us in 
addressing that crisis. Please stop medagoguery. Please join in the 
discussion which is now just beginning. The passage of this bill today 
is just one of a number of steps in which this bill can be modified so 
that it becomes ever a better and better bill. Please join us in 
solving this problem for senior citizens.
  Mr. Speaker, I think it is morally reprehensible to frighten senior 
citizens for political agendas.

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