[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 190 (Thursday, November 30, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H13808]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      DEMOCRATS AND FEARMONGERING

  (Mr. HOKE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. HOKE. Mr. Speaker, I wonder if, since the gentleman who just 
spoke is concerned about the cuts that the Republican plan is going to 
make in Medicare, if he would prefer then that we have a freeze. Would 
that satisfy the gentleman since, if he is concerned that we are 
cutting all of these programs, perhaps he would feel better about 
having a freeze in the programs? Would that work?
  Of course it would not work, and the reason it would not work is that 
we are not cutting anything. in fact, if you see these numbers, you can 
see that the budget for 1995, the Federal budget, is $1.5 trillion. It 
goes up to $1.85 trillion in 2002.
  What is unfortunate is that the minority wants to obscure the truth 
and obscure the facts and confuse the public about what is really 
happening, because by resorting to demagoguery and fearmongering and 
scare tactics, they believe that they can maintain a kind of tenuous 
political edge in the most disingenuous and exploitive way.

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