[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 69 (Thursday, May 16, 1996)]
[House]
[Pages H5185-H5186]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                               A POP QUIZ

  (Mr. KINGSTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, it is the end of the week, and in that 
great American school yard tradition it is time for a pop quiz. This 
might be hard for those suffering from left-wing brain deficiency 
disorder, but let us give it a go anyhow. Which sum is greater, $190 or 
$304 billion? On the Republican side, $304 is greater than $190 
billion.
  Now, if Mr. Kasich's budget increased Medicare spending from $190 to 
$304 billion, would he be doing, A, cutting Medicare; B, increasing 
Medicare; C, I am sorry, what was the question?
  The answer is, of course, Mr. Kasich's budget increases Medicare from 
$190 to $304 billion. It is an increase. Excellent job. A little quiet 
over here on this side.
  Student loans are increasing, Medicaid is increasing, Medicare is 
increasing under the Kasich budget. Yet we are going to hear over and 
over again cut, cut, cut. The only thing I would like for y'all to cut 
out today is the line. Let us be honest; both budgets increase the 
spending. Let us have a good dialog on this.

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                          CONTINUING THE QUIZ

  (Mr. DOGGETT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. DOGGETT. Mr. Speaker, Bob Dole took the same quiz and he had a 
different answer: D, leave school before finals are over.
  Desperate times demand desperate actions, and it is little wonder 
that Mr. Dole would decide to distance himself from this Gingrich 
Congress. After all, this is a Congress that does not seem to learn its 
lessons. It is a Congress that has failed, that failed last year when 
it set out to cut Medicare in order to provide tax breaks for the rich. 
It failed last year when it got government shutdown fever and took its 
political shenanigans to the extreme of costing taxpayers $1.5 billion.
  It failed even yesterday when once again it refused to give America a 
raise. Today the failure is that it has not learned those lessons, and 
it is back with a bad old budget that proposes to cut Medicare, that 
still has tax breaks, that still has cuts in education. The real 
failure is the failure to learn, and it is little wonder that Bob Dole 
left.

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