[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 90 (Tuesday, June 18, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H6435]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                            AN AMAZING TRICK

  (Mr. SABO asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SABO. Mr. Speaker, this place always amazes me. Because of 
President Clinton's program, we had declining deficits for 4 years. Now 
we have the new Republican plan which amazingly increases the deficit 
in the next 2 fiscal years. But what is even more surprising is they 
not only manage to increase the deficit for the next 2 years but at the 
same time they manage to make devastating cuts in health programs for 
the vulnerable in our country, particularly for our seniors. There 
literally would be thousands of seniors, generally poor elderly women, 
who would see huge increases in their Medicare premiums and many other 
millions of Americans who would be subject to changes in Medicaid that 
would leave their health care in question.
  Mr. Speaker, this is really an amazing trick. Two years of rising 
deficits and at the same time program cuts that devastate millions of 
Americans.

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