[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 171 (Wednesday, November 1, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H11592]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   SAVE SOCIAL SECURITY AND MEDICARE

  (Mr. DOGGETT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DOGGETT. Mr. Speaker, adjust your hearing aids, purchase new 
spectacles. Yes, if you were surprised to hear Newt Gingrich telling 
the truth for a change that he wanted, as his words say, ``Now, we 
don't get rid of it in round one,'' referring to Medicare, ``because we 
don't think that is politically smart, and we don't think that is the 
right way to go through a transition period; but we believe it is going 
to wither on the vine,'' then you have not been listening and you have 
not been watching.
  Because there is nothing new about this plan to wreck Medicare. It 
was only in February that his very own Progress and Freedom Foundation 
newspaper entitled their lead editorial ``For Freedom's Sake, Eliminate 
Social Security,'' and proceeded to say it is time to slay the largest 
Government entitlement program of all, Social Security.
  What we have had here this year is round 1 of eliminating and 
destroying Medicare and Social Security.
  The Republicans did not come to this Congress to save Social Security 
and Medicare. They came to bury it.

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