[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 197 (Tuesday, December 12, 1995)]
[House]
[Pages H14264-H14265]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




         DO NOT BALANCE THE BUDGET ON BACKS OF SENIOR CITIZENS

  (Mr. STUPAK asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 


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minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. STUPAK. Mr. Speaker, as we begin to consider how to balance the 
budget this week, we must remember people. Let us not balance the 
budget on the backs of our senior citizens.
  We do not need $245 billion in tax breaks for the wealthiest 1 
percent of this country and for large corporations. We must keep in 
mind what our decisions do to ordinary people.
  One of my citizens recently wrote to me, and if I can quote from that 
letter:

       We used all of our life savings on Medicare and doctor 
     bills for our golden years and now we are on Medicaid. If it 
     were not for the help from Medicaid, we would both die. 
     Please help us and do not let the Republicans take this away 
     from us, because I am so afraid of this happening. With all 
     of our medical problems, we still carry our high insurance, 
     even though I have to borrow the money from family, and they 
     really do not have it to give. And our insurance stops at 65. 
     Then where will we be? Please help us.

  Let us help the ordinary citizens of this country. Let us repeal the 
tax breaks for the wealthiest and the large corporations of this 
country. Let us put people first and not corporate welfare first.

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