[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 70 (Wednesday, June 8, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: June 8, 1994]
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                            MISSED DEADLINES

  (Mr. GOSS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GOSS. Madam Speaker, the President has set many deadlines for 
health care reform--true, such lines in the sand make for good PR. But 
so far each of those ``drop dead'' dates has been missed--as the 
President's ill-conceived and unworkable Big Government health reform 
plan dies a slow death. Today we return from Memorial Day recess--when 
the Democrat-controlled committees of this House were supposed to 
produce a new Clinton health care bill that met the President's 
objectives. But Democrats are not much closer than before to 
agreement--mainly because so much of the Clinton health care proposal 
is so unpalatable to most Americans. so now the Fourth of July is the 
latest deadline--and those cracking the whip for Clinton-style 
Government-run health care say they mean business--but not regrettably 
private enterprise business. Why does the Clinton administration 
continue to whip this dead horse? Let's come together for bipartisan 
health reform that can and will work. Our side is ready.

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