[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 166 (Wednesday, October 25, 1995)]
[House]
[Pages H10752-H10753]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 THE TRUTH ABOUT BUDGET RECONCILIATION

  (Mr. TIAHRT asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TIAHRT. Mr. Speaker, Jay Thomas, who lives in Wichita, KS, said, 
``I would just like to know where I could go to hear the truth,'' and, 
as we heard before, supposedly we snuck up on people, because he heard 
that nutrition programs were being cut and that children would starve, 
but there have been no reports of children starving. In fact, nutrition 
programs are up 4 percent in the Republican budget.

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  My colleagues heard that Medicare was at a $270 billion cut. Yet it 
has gone from $4,800 per year to $6,700 per year with more people in 
the system in 7 years, an increase. Plus it has a lockbox provision so 
any savings goes right back into providing more health care and not for 
tax breaks for the rich like we would hear some other people allegedly 
saying.
  And tax breaks for the rich; let us talk about that. When he knows 
that women who have three children are driving to work this morning so 
they can provide for those children and the tax breaks, I want that 
young woman to know that she will get $1,500, $1,500, of a tax break. 
She is not rich, she is poor.
  So where is the credibility? Listen, Jay. The truth is that we are 
going to balance the budget to preserve a future for the children. We 
are going to preserve and protect Medicare. We are going to reform 
welfare, requiring work, bringing the work ethic back in, and we are 
going to give tax breaks to families, all under the 7-year balanced 
budget Reconciliation Act.

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