[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 84 (Tuesday, June 28, 1994)]
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               SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT ON HEALTH CARE

  Mr. GLICKMAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. GLICKMAN. Mr. Speaker, I yield to my colleague, the gentleman 
from Wisconsin [Mr. Kleczka].
  Mr. KLECZKA. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding.
  Mr. Speaker, there are two statements I think have to be responded to 
by two previous speakers:
  No. 1 was the fact the health care bill being put together now by the 
Committee on Ways and Means contains a tax for health care benefits. 
That is totally false and the gentleman from Georgia [Mr. Gingrich] 
knows that.
  The second contention was that this bill is being written in private. 
However, every day for the last 2\1/2\ weeks, the committee has met in 
room 1100 with three or four cameras present, with a roomful of not 
only press people but, they know full well, tons of lobbyists opposing 
the legislation.
  Mr. Speaker, the contention that this is being written in private is 
total nonsense. The gentleman from California [Mr. Fazio] indicated 72 
percent of the people of this country believe that the employer has 
some responsibility in this thing called health care.
  I challenge my Republican colleagues who oppose employer mandates to 
give up their employer mandate and pay the full price instead of having 
the taxpayers pay 73 percent of their health care bill.

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