On the recordMay 14, 1997
If I could talk about this agreement on the budget for a moment, beginning with my mother and father-in-law. We all love our parents, my folks being on Social Security and, of course, to some degree also dependent upon Medicare for their health and the needs of health in their life. There are folks that as we approach this very historic budget agreement, on behalf of their grandchildren we have done this in such a way to ensure that in fact there will be financial viability of Medicare in particular and Social Security sometime in the future for their children and grandchildren. This is an enormous comfort for senior Americans, especially those who have come to a point in their life where they have come to where they have pretty well come to depend on Medicare being there.
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