NAN A. S. HAYWORTH: “hearing my dear friend from Texas reminds me of that great country and western song entitled ``That's my story and I'm…”

“hearing my dear friend from Texas reminds me of that great country and western song entitled ``That's my story and I'm sticking to it.'' The same tired old bromides based on fear and not on facts still exist within the liberal minority. I daresay what we fail to hear from that microphone is the stunning reality that the bipartisan trustees of the Medicare trust fund told us not 2 weeks ago that if we fail to act, Medicare, as we know it, goes broke in 5 years, quite possibly in 4. The key difference is this, Mr. Speaker: When we get past the name calling and the playground taunts, those of us in the new majority are willing to work to govern, to save, preserve, protect, and improve a program for the next generation, while our dear liberal friends are so willing to abandon reality they are thinking only of the next election. The American people will make the right choice.”