[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 42 (Thursday, April 10, 1997)]
[House]
[Pages H1394-H1395]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




           SCARING SENIOR CITIZENS IN ORDER TO GET REELECTED

  (Mr. SCARBOROUGH asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. SCARBOROUGH. Mr. Speaker, there they go again. There they go 
again.
  Now the Washington Post called what they are taking under here, 
called it medagoguery. Ted Koppel in ``Nightline'' talked about how the 
Democrats were scaring senior citizens

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to try to get reelected. In fact they called it Mediscare. What we are 
seeing are a group of people who were so afraid to save the system that 
the President's own Medicare advisers said was going bankrupt that they 
will resort to anything to get reelected.

                              {time}  1015

  It was the President's task force that said we must save Medicare. So 
we did something radical. We said we would allow Medicare to grow at 
7.2 percent. The President said, let us let it grow at 7.4 percent, and 
we were told we wanted to destroy the system.
  Well, I agree with the gentleman from Ohio [Mr. Traficant]. Mr. 
Speaker, if saving Medicare is being mean to senior citizens, beam me 
up, because I do not understand this place anymore.

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