Rob Andrews: “the truth hurts and the truth is that what the Speaker asserted in 1995, that Medicare should wither on the vine is…”

“the truth hurts and the truth is that what the Speaker asserted in 1995, that Medicare should wither on the vine is still true in his opinion in 1996. The truth also is that this is a Congress that has reacted when people have opposed their positions in very negative and harmful ways to all of us. In 1995 they threw a national temper tantrum and shut the Government down because they could not get what they wanted. And now in 1996 when working men and women who are members of unions like the laborer's union exercise their constitutional right to protest statements like this, they try to intimidate, coerce, and shut them down with hearings like those that are happening today. Real crime is happening on the streets of America but the crime is not happening with statements like this. We ought to give people the right to say what they want. The truth, indeed, hurts.”