[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 65 (Friday, May 10, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H4804]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          A MOTHER'S DAY GIFT

  (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, the gentleman who just spoke would be 
reminded that Mary Matalin, who is an enormously talented woman, was 
ousted from the Dole campaign because she happened to be married to 
James Carville. People in glass houses should not throw stones.
  Mr. Speaker, with Mother's Day only 2 days away, I know many people 
are puzzled about what to get Mom on Sunday.
  Let's look at what Republicans have offered the mothers of America in 
the budget they unwrapped earlier this week.
  If your mother depends on Medicare for her health care, the 
Republicans have given her a $168 billion cut to pay for unnecessary 
tax breaks including those that benefit the wealthy.
  If your mother is in a nursing home on Medicaid, the Republicans have 
given her a $72 billion cut combined with a block grant approach that 
jeopardizes the coverage for her nursing home care.
  The greatest gift congressional Republicans can give mothers and 
their hard working families is a new budget rather than this rehash of 
the same extreme positions and the same skewed priorities as the budget 
they proposed last year.
  It's time for Newt Gingrich and the Republican leadership to put 
families first.

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