[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]




                               THE BUDGET

  (Mr. BROWN of Ohio asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. BROWN of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, here we go again. Speaker Gingrich 
has put together his new budget, Medicare cuts, Medicaid cuts in the 
tens of billions of dollars, cuts in student loans, all to give tax 
breaks to the richest people in the country.
  Here we go again, Mr. Speaker. Last year when the Speaker introduced 
this Gingrich budget, again, tax breaks for the rich paid for by 
Medicare and Medicaid, student loan cuts. It kept going and going. 
Finally, they shut down the Government to get their way.
  The public clearly did not buy what they were saying. The public 
opposes these Medicare and Medicaid cuts, opposes these student loan 
cuts to give tax breaks for the rich. Here we go again.
  The public again is going to have to stand up as we are on this side 
of the aisle and reject that way of thinking. Let us work together, Mr. 
Speaker, to get a good budget without the draconian Medicare and 
Medicaid cuts, without tax breaks for the richest people in society. 
Balance the budget, move forward on increasing the minimum wage and 
building middle class wage jobs.

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