[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 193 (Wednesday, December 6, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H14028]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         REPUBLICAN BUDGET CUTS

  (Mr. WATT of North Carolina asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WATT of North Carolina. Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the invitation 
from my colleague to talk about the budget, because that is exactly 
what I came here to talk about.
  Last Friday I was down in Durham, NC, in my congressional district, 
talking to poor people about the reconciliation bill and the budget 
that has been proposed by my Republican colleagues. They could not 
believe what I was telling them: $270 billion in cuts in Medicare, $180 
billion in cuts in Medicaid, making our health and our future at risk.
  They could not believe that our Republican colleagues were talking 
about cutting reading programs for the most vulnerable kids in America. 
They could not believe that they were talking about taking kids, 1 to 2 
million more kids, and putting them in poverty, all for the purpose of 
giving a tax break to the richest people in America. Get real. This is 
real dollars we are talking about, and the future of our country we are 
talking about.

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