[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]




                               THE BUDGET

  (Mr. WYNN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WYNN. Mr. Speaker, perhaps the previous speaker should also keep 
in mind the Dole dime that actually caused the taxpayers to lose more 
than a can of beans.
  This morning I want to talk about the budget. Despite the headlines, 
this is in fact the same budget with the same flaws. Extreme deep cuts 
on the poor and the middle class to finance tax breaks for the wealthy.
  What does this mean? It means that senior citizens and the poor are 
going to have a second class health care system. They are going to 
march up here in lockstep and try to tell us that we have to make these 
cuts to maintain the solvency of the Medicare system.
  Please do not believe this hoax. The fact of the matter is, we do not 
need these deep cuts. The President's budget, other Democratic budgets 
give us the same level of solvency by the year 2006 as the Republicans 
do without making the deep cuts.
  What do these cuts mean? They mean a loss of choice for seniors as to 
the doctors that they would go to. They mean that hospitals will close 
in rural areas because of deep cuts. And they mean children will go 
without health care.
  As one of my colleagues said, it is basically the same old song.

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