[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 64 (Thursday, May 9, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H4659]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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                  AT LEAST REPUBLICANS ARE CONSISTENT

  (Ms. DeLAURO asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, it is deja vu all over again. Although it 
is early for summer reruns, the Republicans yesterday released their 
budget, which is a rehash of the document that the American public 
resoundingly defeated and rejected in 1995. It has the same identical 
budget priorities, drastically cuts the amount of money spent on health 
care for seniors, a $168 billion cut in Medicare, the potential for 
hospitals to close across this country.
  The Republicans cut Medicare once again, and they propose tax 
benefits for the wealthy. The money that they propose to cut does not 
go into the Medicare trust fund, but it goes to pay for the tax 
increases; the prescription that caused the outcry last year, that 
caused them to retreat from this issue. But you have to admire their 
consistency; they are back here again with the same priorities, and 
that is because their budget is the consequence of their values, of 
their priorities, and their willingness to do harm to the American 
people, and they are sincere in wanting to do harm to working men and 
women in this country.
  Mr. Speaker, the American people want a government that is on its 
side, not the side of special interests.

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