[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 5]
[House]
[Page 6257]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                 THE REPUBLICAN MISINFORMATION MISSION

  (Mr. LEVIN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LEVIN. We've heard your last prayer, Father Dan. We wish you the 
best. You have served us very well.
  Mr. Speaker, I was on the floor last night, and I heard the debate. 
Clearly, there is a massive misinformation mission on the part of the 
Republicans.
  I heard repeatedly that they want to save Medicare. No. They want to 
end it with a voucher, costing seniors in the future at least $6,000 a 
year. They say they want to preserve the safety net. No. They want to 
shred it.
  According to nonpartisan analysis, their proposal calls for spending 
on items other than Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid--but 
including defense--to fall from 12 percent of GDP last year to 6 
percent in 2022 and just 3.5 percent of GDP in the long run. We are not 
going to shred defense. What their proposal means in shredding the 
safety net is that they have become radicals instead of conservatives.

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