[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 34 (Wednesday, March 23, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: March 23, 1994]
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                      THE FIRST LADY, A REAL DOER

  (Miss COLLINS of Michigan asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Miss COLLINS of Michigan. Mr. Speaker, we have heard a steady 
drumbeat of attack rhetoric criticizing First Lady Hillary Clinton from 
the ``Pillory Hillary'' crowd. The headline grabbers who jump to 
condemn every step and every sneeze do so because they have so little 
to offer the American people in the way of concrete proposals to solve 
our problems.
  Where is their health plan? Their jobs plan? Their welfare plan? It 
is easy to criticize. It is far harder to find solutions.
  And yet find solutions is exactly what Hillary Clinton has done. She 
has accepted the challenge of providing every American, of whatever 
station in life, health care.
  It is abominable that this country has let over 36 million Americans 
fall through the cracks. It is embarrassing that the leader of the 
industrial world cannot provide this very basic service to our people.
  The First Lady has taken the ball and she has run with it. She has 
labored long days and nights over the health care bill. She has taken 
the cause to the American people. She has faced crowds of every 
persuasion. She has stood up to powerful lobbies. She has delivered a 
proposal to Congress.
  Those who deliver nothing but barbs do so because they have little 
else to say. Some people are doers and some are talkers. I salute the 
First Lady, a real doer.

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