Barbara Boxer: “I think that is the clearest explanation I have ever heard of the Bush plan. It is very clear. Something that I read…”

“I think that is the clearest explanation I have ever heard of the Bush plan. It is very clear. Something that I read yesterday reminded me of the days when Newt Gingrich was in control, and as the Senator well remembers, in 1995 it led to a Government shutdown. They wanted to cut $207 billion out of Medicare over 10 years. And we said that is the end of Medicare. It turns out that Governor Bush in those years said that Gingrich and the Republicans were courageous to do this, and he lauded it. I think if you take that statement and mesh it with what the Senator from Iowa just taught us about his plan, it all adds up now. It is the end of Medicare.”