[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 194 (Thursday, December 7, 1995)]
[House]
[Pages H14178-H14179]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




  PRESIDENT VETOED BUDGET THAT MADE DEVASTATING CUTS IN MEDICAID AND 
                                MEDICARE

  (Mr. GENE GREEN of Texas asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GENE GREEN of Texas. Mr. Speaker, I am glad to hear my Republican 
colleagues defending Speaker Gingrich today. You heard that right. They 
are defending the Speaker they elected earlier this year. But that is 
not what I am here to talk about, I am here to say I am proud that the 
President vetoed the Republican budget yesterday with the same pen 
Lyndon Baines Johnson signed Medicare and Medicaid into law, because he 
believes 

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that the deep and devastating cuts in Medicare, education, and tax 
increases on working families is not in line with the priorities that 
Americans have set. Thank the Lord he vetoed that bill.
  The budget made devastating cuts in Medicare and Medicaid in order to 
finance a tax break, a tax break before we even balance the budget. It 
was unacceptable and I am proud the President did that.
  Now that the budget has been vetoed, let us do what my colleagues 
said, let us get about balancing the budget in a fair way. Democrats 
and Republicans alike agreed in a continuing resolution to balance the 
budget in a way that protects Medicare, education, the environment, and 
working Americans. Let us do that bipartisanly and we can have a 
balanced budget for all of America.

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