[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]




                          LESSONS NOT LEARNED

  (Mr. MILLER of California asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. MILLER of California. Mr. Speaker, last year the American public 
witnessed the Republicans shutting down the U.S. Federal Government so 
they could try and force the President of the United States to cut 
Medicare, to give tax cuts to the wealthy.
  Apparently the Republicans have learned nothing from their 
repudiation by the American people of that budget because they are back 
again this year. They are back again today cutting over $168 billion 
out of Medicare, reducing the spending below the rate of inflation for 
senior citizens, which means that senior citizens will have less money 
to purchase the health care that they have today in the future.
  What will they do with that money? Not repair the Medicare account. 
They are going to give that money in capital gains tax to some of the 
wealthiest people in this Nation.
  That is what the country repudiated last year when they shut down the 
Government. That is what the country is going to repudiate this year, 
and senior citizen ought to understand that the Republicans are back, 
same old budget, same old ploy, and the same old cuts in Medicare to 
give tax cuts to the wealthy.

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