[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 30 (Thursday, March 17, 1994)]
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NEANDERTHAL ATTITUDE
(Ms. DUNN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1
minute and to revise and extend her remarks).
Ms. DUNN. Mr. Speaker, yesterday the gentleman from California [Mr.
Stark] suggested that our distinguished colleague, the gentlewoman from
Connecticut [Mrs. Johnson], gained her expertise on health care from
pillow talk. He was referring to the fact that the spouse of the
gentlewoman from Connecticut is a doctor.
Pillow talk? Mr. Speaker, here is a message for the gentleman from
California [Mr. Stark]: This is the 1990's, not the 1950's. That sort
of attitude went out with hula hoops, bobby sox, and Sandra Dee movies.
You have to wonder about the peculiar attitude of the gentleman from
California [Mr. Stark] toward women. Mr. Speaker, is his thinking so
grounded in the past that he cannot adapt to the present? Is that the
reason he supports a Government-run medicine scheme that history has
already proved to be unworkable?
Mr. Speaker, in any event, Chairman Stark owes the gentlewoman from
Connecticut [Mrs. Johnson] and all the women of the House an apology.
Let us keep the health care debate where it should be--on the floor
of the Congress.
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