Subject: [big campaign] Media Matters Action Releases Report Highlighting GOP Hypocrisy on Medicare
From: Chris Harris <[email-masked]>
To: Chris Harris <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2009 11:14:16 -0500
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*For Immediate Release*

December 8, 2009

Contact: Chris Harris

202-756-4120

*Media Matters Action** Releases
Report<http://mediamattersaction.org/factcheck/200912070007>Highlighting
GOP Hypocrisy on Medicare
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*Congressional Republicans have supported cutting
TRILLIONS<http://mediamattersaction.org/factcheck/200912070007>from
Medicare.
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*WASHINGTON, D.C. – **Media Matters Action Network* today released a
report<http://mediamattersaction.org/factcheck/200912070007>detailing
the extreme hypocrisy displayed by Republican members of Congress
during the debate surrounding health care reform.  While Democratic reform
proposals bolster Medicare by virtually eliminating waste, fraud, and abuse,
Republicans rely on a false line of attack, insisting legislation would lead
to benefit cuts.

Despite their hollow rhetoric, Republicans have a long track record of
philosophically opposing Medicare and actively seeking to reduce its
funding.  Underscoring the GOP’s shocking duplicity, *Media Matters Action
Network* revealed that since 1991, Senate Republicans voted to slash *$1.31
trillion <http://mediamattersaction.org/factcheck/200912010001>* from
Medicare while their Republican counterparts in the House voted to take over
*$1 trillion <http://mediamattersaction.org/factcheck/200912040007>* away
from America’s seniors.

“After a decades-long assault on Medicare, today’s Republican Party is
exhibiting blatant hypocrisy by feigning interest in protecting America’s
seniors from imaginary benefit cuts,” said Chris Harris, communications
director for *Media Matters Action Network*.

 “If congressional Republicans truly want what’s best for American seniors,
they should stop lying to them about death panels and Medicare cuts, and
work with Democrats to strengthen America’s health care system.”

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*Media Matters Action Network *is a Web-based, not-for-profit, progressive
action and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring,
analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation.

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