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Willie Hefner: “First of all, if we buy the rhetoric from our friends in the Republican party, we have to assume that there should not…”

On the recordJanuary 4, 1996
First of all, if we buy the rhetoric from our friends in the Republican party, we have to assume that there should not be any negotiations on the budget; that the President should just sign the budget that they sent to him; that it is a perfect document, he cannot improve on it, it has all the cures for the ills that affect this country. The President has real concerns, and so do the majority of the American people have concerns about the budget that the Republicans sent to the President of the United States, especially our senior citizens, our health delivery system, our hospitals, and I have just a whole list here from hospitals in North Carolina, veterans hospitals and private hospitals that say that this budget would be devastating to the delivery system to our senior citizens and to Medicare, not only in North Carolina but all across the country.
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Willie Hefner
Democratic · North Carolina
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Editor's note · Context

Addressing concerns about the Republican budget proposal and its impact on senior citizens and healthcare.

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