[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 19]
[House]
[Page 25566]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                             FISCAL FANTASY

  (Mr. KINGSTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KINGSTON. Madam Speaker, I was listening to some of this hysteria 
and rhetoric from the Democrat Party, and I wonder sometimes if they 
actually believe what their speech writers apparently give them. 
Obviously, they do not read it before they start giving the speech 
because they know food stamps are going up $250 million. It is not a 
cut. Medicaid is going up $66 billion. That is not a cut. Medicaid goes 
up 7 percent instead of 7.3 percent. That is what you need to be 
saying; we think it should be going up more than you guys, but admit, 
as we all know, Medicaid is going up 7 percent, $66 billion.
  Yet in Washington, D.C., just like Disney World, there is a lot of 
fantasy around us. And the fantasy is that if you do not get the 
increase that you want, you can go out and have the New York Times and 
Washington Post say, yes, he is right, that is a cut because they are 
not going up 7.3 percent, they are going up 7 percent. We have a plan 
to reform government and create savings. Yesterday, the Democrat Party 
announced they would have no agenda for 2005. Well, surprise, surprise. 
It is only November. But when is the Democrat Party going to announce 
its alternative? I will ask that question. I hope somebody will answer.

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