[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 86 (Wednesday, June 12, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H6187]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




  TRUST FUND SCARE ONE OF BIGGEST SCAMS EVER PERPETRATED ON AMERICANS

  (Ms. VELAZQUEZ asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Ms. VELAZQUEZ. Mr. Speaker, we have heard a lot of rhetoric from 
Republicans this year. However, the current trust fund scare is one of 
the biggest scams ever perpetrated on the American people.
  Republicans in Congress are using the Medicare trust fund report to 
justify their extreme proposal to slash Medicare. The trust fund report 
is simply a smokescreen for the real reason they want to cut Medicare: 
tax breaks.
  If Republicans were truly interested in saving Medicare, they would 
reduce their huge tax breaks to the rich, not by slashing this vital 
program with cuts that will devastate seniors, close public hospitals, 
and burden working-class families.
  Medicare is a program that should provide health care services for 
seniors, not a piggy bank for wealthy corporations and the privileged 
few.

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