[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 48 (Thursday, April 28, 1994)]
[Senate]
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[Congressional Record: April 28, 1994]
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                          WHO WORKS FOR WHOM?

  (Mr. GOSS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GOSS. Mr. Speaker, a congressional Representative is supposed to 
represent the American people. But in recent days, frustrated liberals 
determined to impose a Government-run health system seem to have 
written a new prescription for their view of representative democracy. 
A leading player in the other body's health reform efforts recently 
told AP, ``We're going to push through health reform regardless of the 
views of the American people.'' In other words, people do not count, 
Government knows best--trust us. That is a tough statement when you 
consider that we work for the American people and most Americans oppose 
the liberals prescription for health care reform. They do not want 
bureaucrats making their health care decisions and they do not want 
job-killing payroll taxes. Maybe it is time to remind those who scoff 
at the views of the American people just who works for whom. Is that 
not what elections are for?

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