[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 73 (Wednesday, May 19, 1999)]
[House]
[Page H3301]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




      ADMINISTRATION CUTS MEDICARE BY REFUSING TO SPEND THE MONEY

  (Mr. HAYWORTH asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HAYWORTH. Mr. Speaker, my friend, the gentleman from Colorado 
(Mr. Schaffer) points out yet another way in which the Clinton-Gore 
team says one thing and does another. Indeed, to use the rhetoric of 
Mediscare from 1996, in essence Mr. Clinton, Mr. Gore and their liberal 
allies have cut Medicare by $20 billion by refusing to spend the money.
  I suppose it will come as no great surprise to the pundits and those 
in town here engaged in spin, because we have a credibility canyon of 
people saying one thing and doing another.

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  That is why, Mr. Speaker, not only in terms of defending our seniors, 
but for all Americans in terms of national security, this House should 
release the Cox Committee Report so that we can get to the bottom of 
Chinese espionage and transfers of technology, not to engage in spin 
and double-talk, as some do at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue, 
but because the American people deserve the facts, and free people in a 
constitutional society have the right to a common defense and a sound 
national security.
  Let us end this breach of credibility. Let us heal that breach and 
give the American people straight answers.

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