[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 84 (Tuesday, June 28, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: June 28, 1994]
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    OPINION POLL SHOWS AMERICANS OPPOSED TO THE CLINTON HEALTH PLAN

  (Mr. GINGRICH asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GINGRICH. Mr. Speaker, I listened with interest to the remarks of 
the distinguished gentleman from California [Mr. Fazio], and all I can 
say is that I frankly do not understand the Democratic leadership's 
current position on health care.
  The poll in the Washington Post this morning says 53 percent of the 
country is opposed to the Clinton health plan, 53 percent are opposed. 
The latest report we have from the Committee on Ways and Means is that 
the new House Democratic leadership bill has a brand-new tax on our 
health insurance; that is, if we already have health insurance, we are 
going to have a brandnew tax imposed on us so we can pay a tax to go to 
the Government for the right of having our own health insurance, and 
this is supposedly going to somehow lower to cost to working Americans.
  We have an example today coming to the floor of two big 
telecommunications bills we are going to pass on a bipartisan basis 
because we worked together with good faith in an honest, open way. Mr. 
Speaker, I beg the Democratic leadership to pull back from these big 
tax, big Government, big bureaucracy health bills, approach it in the 
same open, bipartisan way, work with the people who are sponsoring the 
Rowland-Bilirakis bill, which is a bipartisan bill; work with those of 
us on the Republican side who want to pass a bipartisan health bill, 
but please do not try to ram through and force on the American people a 
tax increase, big Government health bill.

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