[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 107 (Monday, July 18, 2011)]
[House]
[Page H5134]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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                SOCIAL SAFETY NET PROGRAMS UNDER ATTACK

  (Mr. GARAMENDI asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. GARAMENDI. Madam Speaker, later this week, this House will take 
up the second iteration--the second coming, if you will--of the House 
Republican budget, a budget designed to destroy Medicare, basically to 
terminate it for anyone who's 55 years or younger, a plan designed to 
put Social Security on a track to privatization, a plan designed to 
take nearly $700 billion out of the Medicaid program, basically 
destroying those things that have held the fabric of America together.
  Have no illusions about what this is all about. It's not just a 
constitutional amendment; it's not just cut and cap. It is really about 
destroying Medicare, Medicaid, programs that are essential for seniors.
  If you want to make a cut in something, why don't you take a third of 
a trillion dollars out of the war in Afghanistan, which is what we're 
going to spend over the next 4 years? Now there's a good cut that we 
ought to make.

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