[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 181 (Wednesday, November 15, 1995)]
[House]
[Pages H12352-H12353]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      REPUBLICAN PLAN TOO EXTREME

  (Mr. GEJDENSON asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GEJDENSON. Mr. Speaker, Mr. Gingrich and Senator Dole have shut 
the Government down so that they can get a tax cut to the richest 1 
percent of Americans. The extreme program they 

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have undertaken has stopped Government. Two hundred and forty-five 
billion dollars in Medicare cuts, $170 billion from Medicaid, an 
assault on the environment, student loans, the Endangered Species Act, 
the Arctic National Refuge.
  Mr. Speaker, every part of the program is too extreme, and that is 
why Government has come to a halt. It cannot get through the House and 
Senate, so they are trying to blackmail the American people by shutting 
down this Government.
  Mr. Speaker, if they take the tax cut off the table, we could even 
reach the balanced budget in the time they want to. But no, their goal 
is to take seniors and throw them off Medicare, to take children and 
take away their lunch program, to end the kind of environmental 
protection that has cleaned up the air and our rivers, a program even 
this week's Business Week says is too extreme.

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