[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 176 (Wednesday, November 8, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H11833]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                            ELECTION RESULTS

  (Mr. MILLER of California asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MILLER of California. Mr. Speaker, voters all across the country 
yesterday voted against the Republican Medicare cuts and the Republican 
cuts in education. They voted to put Democrats in office at the local 
level. And yet last night what were the Republicans in the House of 
Representatives, and the U.S. Senate doing? They were secretly 
negotiating to bring about the first installment of the withering of 
Medicare that the Speaker has said he supports and endorses. They are 
going to start to wither Medicare by raising the part B premiums today 
in the debt limit.
  They are going to ask senior citizens to step up and take these cuts 
in Medicare benefits at a time that they still want to continue to 
press forward for a $245 billion tax cut for the wealthiest people in 
this country.
  Yes, the Republican votes today will be to let Medicare wither. We 
ought to reject those votes. We ought to reject that proposition, and 
we ought to do what the people of this country voted yesterday to do 
and that is to protect Medicare, to make sure that it is not used as a 
piggy bank for tax cuts for the wealthy.

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