[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 110 (Wednesday, July 24, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H8253]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                            THE TRUTH HURTS

  (Mr. ANDREWS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ANDREWS. Mr. Speaker, the truth hurts and the truth is that what 
the Speaker asserted in 1995, that Medicare should wither on the vine 
is still true in his opinion in 1996.
  The truth also is that this is a Congress that has reacted when 
people have opposed their positions in very negative and harmful ways 
to all of us. In 1995 they threw a national temper tantrum and shut the 
Government down because they could not get what they wanted. And now in 
1996 when working men and women who are members of unions like the 
laborer's union exercise their constitutional right to protest 
statements like this, they try to intimidate, coerce, and shut them 
down with hearings like those that are happening today. Real crime is 
happening on the streets of America but the crime is not happening with 
statements like this. We ought to give people the right to say what 
they want. The truth, indeed, hurts.

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