[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 125 (Thursday, September 12, 1996)]
[House]
[Pages H10335-H10336]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       WE MUST NOT SLASH MEDICARE

  (Mr. HINCHEY asked and was given permission to address theHouse for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HINCHEY. Mr. Speaker, yesterday, Presidential candidate Bob Dole 
came back to Washington in an attempt to rally the troops around his 
tax cut proposal. It has become increasingly obvious, sadly, that the 
leadership of this House and the Presidential Republican candidate are 
capable of generating only one basic idea, and that basic idea is to 
cut taxes for the wealthy at the expense of every other American.
  There is no way we can reduce taxes by $550 billion, which is what 
Mr. Dole proposes to do, without slashing away at Medicare even more 
severely than was attempted by this House in the budget that was passed 
here and vetoed by the President. We saw an attempt to cut Medicare 
here by $270 billion. The Dole plan will cut it, in all probability, by 
more than twice that amount.

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  Let us not slash Medicare. Let us be sensible about it and let us see 
this plan for exactly what it is: An attempt to deprive elderly 
Americans of the health care they so desperately need and the security 
that their families need as well.

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