claim: says "russ feingold cut medicare by $523 billion."
author: ron johnson
evidence_1: mar 20, 1998 ... russell d. feingold, wisconsin .... cumulative on-budget deficits total $523  billion ..... fiscal problems, cbo finds that the government would need to cut ......  sional budget office says the medicare trust fund will be ex-.
evidence_2: oct 21, 2012 ... russ feingold, a democrat, "cut medicare by $523 billion." (again, that was the  earlier estimate of obamacare's spending-reduction plan.)
evidence_3: russell d. feingold, wisconsin. tim johnson, south dakota .... senator  feingold. ..... without social. security and medicare trust fund moneys, the  surpluses would be ... the $750 billion tax cut, not counting the interest, the  associated ... daschle, said that ''tax cuts enacted on a bipartisan basis last year  caused the ...
evidence_4: may 15, 2015 ... ron johnson "likes to say there are too many lawyers in the senate – 57. he'd be  the ... "russ feingold cut medicare by $523 billion." we rated ...
evidence_5: may 11, 1995 ... surance or medicare is going to cover these long-term care ex- penses. often, it  is only ... it has been said that the real health care decisions are not made ....  statement of senator russell d. feingold .... the offsetting spending  cuts in s. 85 actually realize $6 billion ...... free-look p eriod (523).