[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 53 (Tuesday, April 29, 1997)]
[House]
[Pages H1916-H1917]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         WE MUST SAVE MEDICARE

  (Mr. KNOLLENBERG asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KNOLLENBERG. Mr. Speaker, I may sound like a broken record, but 
just 1 year ago I stood here in this well and said we must save 
Medicare. I said we cannot let this program that helps so many senior 
citizens in our country go belly up. Yet as much as many things change, 
they sure seem to stay the same.
  Medicare is still on the road to ruin and now we only have 4 years, 4 
years before it is bankrupt. In fact, because of the President's 
inaction, it is now 2001. At that time Medicare will be $23.4 billion 
in the hole.
  Perhaps the President may have had too much on his mind with all of 
those fundraising distractions last year. But now the campaign is over, 
and it is time to worry about our seniors who need a healthy Medicare 
to survive.

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  So I would ask my friends, particularly those on the other side of 
the aisle, to join in this time to help us fight, stop the games, stop 
the demagoging. It will not help your campaigns to put our seniors at 
risk. Let us save Medicare.

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