[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 79 (Tuesday, June 21, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: June 21, 1994]
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                         OLD WINE, OLD BOTTLES

  (Mr. LINDER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LINDER. Mr. Speaker, the Clinton administration is claiming they 
have new ideas to bring to the health care debate.
  This reminds me of the adage ``putting new wine in old bottles.'' 
Except that the Clinton administration hasn't even gone that far.
  There's no new wine here, just the same old, stale vintage of big 
spending, big taxing programs.
  There is no new bottle either. One sniff of the cork and you know 
this is the same big government container we have seen before.
  The only thing that is new here is the label. Instead of employer 
mandate, we now get the benign-sounding ``triggers.''
  This is the same old chicanery from the same old winery that called 
taxes ``contributions'' just last year.
  Fortunately, America has learned that it must look past the 
salesmanship to the basic question: Who pays? With this administration 
and with this plan they have learned the answer is they do.

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