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Article: Rostenkowski Heckled By Senior Citizens; `Catastrophic-Illness' Cost Increase Protested
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- August 18, 1989
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A crowd of about 100 senior citizens, angry over increased costs
for catastrophic-illness benefits from Medicare, today jeered House
Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dan Rostenkowski (D-Ill.) and
briefly blocked his car from leaving a meeting in the heart of his
home district.
The senior citizens, who had earlier voted not to boo
Rostenkowski if he agreed to speak with them, stormed after him when
he refused to address them, shouting "Liar, liar," "Chicken, chicken"
and "We won't forget at election time."
The incident occured after a private, 90-minute meeting with
representatives of six senior-citizen groups at the Copernicus Center
in the center of the Northwest Side Chicago district ...