Martin Sabo: “this place always amazes me. Because of President Clinton's program, we had declining deficits for 4 years. Now we have…”

“this place always amazes me. Because of President Clinton's program, we had declining deficits for 4 years. Now we have the new Republican plan which amazingly increases the deficit in the next 2 fiscal years. But what is even more surprising is they not only manage to increase the deficit for the next 2 years but at the same time they manage to make devastating cuts in health programs for the vulnerable in our country, particularly for our seniors. There literally would be thousands of seniors, generally poor elderly women, who would see huge increases in their Medicare premiums and many other millions of Americans who would be subject to changes in Medicaid that would leave their health care in question. Mr. Speaker, this is really an amazing trick. Two years of rising deficits and at the same time program cuts that devastate millions of Americans.”