[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 110 (Wednesday, July 24, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H8252]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        THE REAL GINGRICH AGENDA

  (Mr. BONIOR asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. BONIOR. Mr. Speaker, Republicans are trying to tell us today that 
Newt Gingrich did not say he wants Medicare to wither on the vine. But 
the record suggests otherwise.
  Thirteen separate times, this Gingrich Congress voted to cut Medicare 
to pay for tax breaks for the wealthy.
  Bob Dole brags about his 1965 vote against Medicare. Dick Armey says 
Medicare is a program he would have no part of in a free world. Bill 
Thomas calls Medicare ``socialism.'' And last February, Newt Gingrich's 
own think tank ran this editorial in their newsletter with this 
headline: ``For Freedom's Sake, Eliminate Social Security.''
  Mr. Speaker, that is the direction the Republicans are heading. And 
now that the labor movement has had the courage to tell the truth about 
the Gingrich agenda, and stand up for working families, the Republicans 
are doing all they can to silence them.
  Mr. Speaker, there's an old saying: Salt doesn't hurt unless it hits 
an open wound. First, it was Medicare. Next, it is Social Security. 
That is the real Gingrich agenda.

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