[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 81 (Wednesday, June 5, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H5822]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                             SAVE MEDICARE

  (Mr. CHABOT asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. CHABOT. Mr. Speaker, 5 short years. That is the amount of time 
that is remaining in the Medicare trust fund before it goes completely 
bankrupt. The trust fund already has started to lose billions, and 
unless we make some needed changes, Medicare will be completely 
bankrupt within 5 years. So the situation is even worse than was 
predicted by the Clinton administration last year.
  Mr. Speaker, there are many, many people in my district who depend on 
Medicare and who expect to be around 5 years from now. My own parents 
are on Medicare. It would be an absolute outrage if political posturing 
and political games prevent us from saving a program that so many 
Americans depended upon.
  Just as politics ought to stop at the water's edge, politics when it 
comes to Medicare absolutely should stop in this House. Even President 
Clinton admitted all those attack ads about Republicans alleging 
cutting Medicare are absolutely not true.
  It is time that rather than everybody attacking everybody about who 
is cutting Medicare, Republicans and Democrats ought to work together 
to save Medicare.

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