Maurice Hinchey: “It has become increasingly obvious, sadly, that the leadership of this House and the Presidential Republican candidate…”

“It has become increasingly obvious, sadly, that the leadership of this House and the Presidential Republican candidate are capable of generating only one basic idea, and that basic idea is to cut taxes for the wealthy at the expense of every other American. There is no way we can reduce taxes by $550 billion, which is what Mr. Dole proposes to do, without slashing away at Medicare even more severely than was attempted by this House in the budget that was passed here and vetoed by the President. We saw an attempt to cut Medicare here by $270 billion. The Dole plan will cut it, in all probability, by more than twice that amount. Let us not slash Medicare. Let us be sensible about it and let us see this plan for exactly what it is: An attempt to deprive elderly Americans of the health care they so desperately need and the security that their families need as well.”