[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 181 (Wednesday, November 15, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H12352]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      HUMOROUS STUDY IN HYPOCRISY

  (Mr. SCARBOROUGH asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. SCARBOROUGH. Mr. Speaker, this past week since the Government has 
been shut down it has been a very humorous study in hypocrisy watching 
the President of the United States and his minions here in Congress. 
They say they want to protect seniors, but talk is cheap.
  Let us look at the record. Yesterday they voted to allow the 
President and Robert Rubin to raid the Social Security trust fund. A 
few years ago every one of them voted to raise taxes on Social Security 
recipients to 85 percent, and they did that without a single Republican 
vote supporting that. They voted in 1993 to raise taxes through the 
roof for working seniors and lower the level to $11,000.
  They have ignored the President's own trustees who have told us that 
Medicare is going bankrupt. Instead, they want to close their eyes and 
demagogue the issue, and they say, let us go ahead and let Rubin raid 
the trust fund. We can trust Bill Clinton.
  Well, in 1992, was it not Bill Clinton who promised a middle class 
tax cut, and when he had a chance to define his budget priorities, the 
next year he passed the largest tax increase in the history of this 
country. In 1992, he promised to balance the budget in 5 years, and yet 
the deficit continued to soar.

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