[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 166 (Wednesday, October 25, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H10752]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      RECONCILIATION WITH A ``W''

  (Mrs. SCHROEDER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. SCHROEDER. Mr. Speaker, yesterday I talked about the words that 
the Gingrich revolution uses to sneak up on people and make them think 
that they are all warm fuzzies. Reconciliation is one of those words. 
It sounds so warm and wonderful, but let me say, unless you are in the 
middle class that the Republicans have had defined by them, by the 
gentleman from North Carolina, Congressman Heineman, as those people 
from $300,000 a year to $750,000, unless you are in that middle class, 
reconciliation is spelled this way for you.
  This is really ``wreconciliation'' for the middle class. That is 
where I am, and I think we need to go into this much further and point 
it out before this all happens and before people are lulled to sleep.
  What happens to the elderly? Boom. What happens to families? Boom. 
What happens to children? Boom. We are going to wreck families, 
children, and all sorts of people's sustainable income that has kept 
them in what we define as the middle class.
  So, pull it away, and away they fall. This is wreconciliation; do not 
be fooled by the word.

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