[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 186 (Monday, November 20, 1995)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E2226]
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                       LIES, LIES, AND MORE LIES

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                       HON. BARBARA-ROSE COLLINS

                              of michigan

                    in the house of representatives

                       Monday, November 20, 1995

  Miss COLLINS of Michigan. Mr. Speaker, let's stop the lies. Every 
time a Member gets up on this floor and says that Democrats don't want 
a balanced budget, that's a lie. We all want a balanced budget, it's 
just a question of who's burdened with the cuts required to balance 
that budget. Stop the lies.
  Every time a Member gets up on this floor and says that Medicare is 
not being cut. That's a lie. The rate of growth in Medicare spending is 
being reduced. That's a cut. Stop the lies.
  Anytime you want to balance a budget, you don't increase spending on 
defense, you don't give certain people in our society a tax break, you 
don't continue corporate welfare that costs the taxpayers more money 
than all of the social welfare put together. That doesn't really sound 
like somebody who is serious about balancing a budget. That sounds more 
like someone who is using the budget debate to make a wholesale shift 
in this nation's spending priorities, no matter who it hurts.
  Stop the lies.

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