[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 176 (Thursday, November 17, 2011)]
[House]
[Page H7730]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 PRESERVE MEDICARE AND SOCIAL SECURITY

  (Ms. EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON of Texas asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute.)
  Ms. EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON of Texas. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to 
speak in strong opposition to cuts in Medicare and Social Security.
  In these last few days and the most important days that we face, I 
challenge the supercommittee to put politics aside and to work together 
to come up with a balanced, bipartisan deal that will strengthen and 
preserve our Nation's most successful health care and anti-poverty 
health programs.
  Across-the-board cuts, which will result from the supercommittee's 
failure to work together, will do nothing more than increase health 
care costs to seniors and the disabled and weaken our already 
vulnerable economy.
  I have received countless phone calls, stacks of letters, boxes of 
cards from concerned constituents all over north Texas who wait in fear 
to hear the fate of their economic future. I urge the supercommittee to 
reject any policies that will result in higher costs for our Nation's 
sick and elderly.

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