[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 120 (Thursday, September 5, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H10047]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      DOLE TAX CUT BAD FOR SENIORS

  (Mr. GENE GREEN of Texas asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GENE GREEN of Texas. Mr. Speaker, I have no fear of taking a drug 
test, and I suggest we do it here on the floor of the House.
  Let me talk about the cuts that we have in safe and drug-free 
schools, the same people we have heard this morning talk about the 
increase in drug use, and yet this majority Republican Congress cut $99 
million out of safe and drug-free schools that the President requested, 
again the DARE programs.
  But that is not what I want to talk about today. Mr. Speaker, I 
really wanted to talk about the proposed spending of all the political 
career of Senator Dole as a budget balancer and now calling for a 15 
percent tax cut. This sounds great and all of us would like to have 
one, but how are we going to pay for it? In recent history, if there is 
any indication, it will be paid for by cuts in education, by cuts in 
the Medicare needs for seniors, and of course, remember last year when 
Senator Dole bragged about voting against the creation of Medicare in 
1965. Now he says he wants to preserve and protect it.
  Mr. Speaker, I am concerned that after November 5, if that happens, 
we will then hear about where those cuts are going to come, and they 
are going to come from education, from Medicare for seniors and from 
programs that we need to plan for the 21st century.

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