[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 91 (Wednesday, June 19, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H6516]
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                   THE RIGHT CHOICE TO SAVE MEDICARE

  (Mr. HAYWORTH asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HAYWORTH. Mr. Speaker, hearing my dear friend from Texas reminds 
me of that great country and western song entitled ``That's my story 
and I'm sticking to it.'' The same tired old bromides based on fear and 
not on facts still exist within the liberal minority.
  I daresay what we fail to hear from that microphone is the stunning 
reality that the bipartisan trustees of the Medicare trust fund told us 
not 2 weeks ago that if we fail to act, Medicare, as we know it, goes 
broke in 5 years, quite possibly in 4.
  The key difference is this, Mr. Speaker: When we get past the name 
calling and the playground taunts, those of us in the new majority are 
willing to work to govern, to save, preserve, protect, and improve a 
program for the next generation, while our dear liberal friends are so 
willing to abandon reality they are thinking only of the next election. 
The American people will make the right choice.

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