[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 85 (Wednesday, June 29, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: June 29, 1994]
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                       THREE SHAKING DEVELOPMENTS

  (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, we have had three shocking developments in 
health care in the last few hours. First, Chairman Dingell's letter 
simply misinforms the House. He says, ``The House Republican leadership 
actively opposed efforts to craft a bipartisan bill.''
  That is plain not true. We reached out to Democrat after Democrat. We 
offered to support the Rowland-Bilirakis bill, which is a bipartisan 
bill, which has 35 Democrats, 35 Republicans. We are committed to a 
bipartisan plan.
  Chairman Dingell was afraid to bring his committee together because a 
bipartisan bill would have had a majority and the President would have 
lost.
  Second, Chairman Dingell's letter says that he has already been 
promised by the Speaker and Majority Leader Gephardt that the Energy 
and Commerce leadership, which has failed, will now be in some kind of 
secret meeting writing a health bill, even though they failed. I hope 
that is not true.
  Third, we have been told that the Clinton administration is trying to 
break up the bipartisan coalition Democrats and Republicans which last 
night passed the Porter amendment. I would hope that there are no 
Clinton clones who can be turned around in 24 hours on a policy vote 
that was real, to create more community health centers to help more 
people with health care.

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