[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 64 (Thursday, May 9, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H4656]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                             BUDGET RERUNS

  (Mrs. KENNELLY asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mrs. KENNELLY. Mr. Speaker, yesterday the majority presented their 
budget for the next year. The press release from this body, we really 
could not tell what was in it. It was rhetoric. However, if we looked 
at the press release from the Senate, the other body, we saw some 
numbers so we could find out somewhat what was in the budget.
  What I could understand is, it is a rerun of proposals that were 
vetoed by the President late last year and have no support by the 
American people.
  One proposal in particular should deeply concern us. This budget 
proposes reducing the amount that States must spend on medical services 
for our Nation's poorest. This will set off a race to the bottom, one 
where no State wins by behaving responsibility and where the big losers 
in America are the poorest and the sickest.
  We ought to be fighting to protect these people, not abandoning them. 
I worry about this year's budget now.

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