[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 109 (Tuesday, July 23, 1996)]
[House]
[Pages H8107-H8108]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        THE TRUTH ABOUT MEDICARE

  (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, there is an old saying that when you 
cannot dazzle people with your brilliance, you baffle them with your 
bull. Certainly that seems to be the theme of the Democrat Party today, 
. . . one after the other, saying that the Speaker said Medicare should 
wither on the vine.
  They know, as do their AFL-CIO comrades, that the statement was that 
HCFA, the Health Care Financing Administration, would wither on the 
vine. This thing is so important that even television stations have 
taken this AFL-CIO-Democrat ad off the air because it is a lie.
  It is amazing, when they speak with such forked tongue, that they 
come up here and ask for bipartisanship . . . .

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  The other thing that they are saying is that the Republican plan cuts 
Medicare. The Republican plan goes from $190 to $304 billion. I wish 
that my Democrat friends would join me in increasing Medicare from 
$5,000 to $7,000 per person. It would be great if they would like to 
join us in increasing and protecting and preserving Medicare. I ask 
them to . . . join us in true reform.
  Mr. VOLKMER. Mr. Speaker, I demand that the gentleman's words be 
taken down.

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