[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 85 (Wednesday, June 29, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: June 29, 1994]
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            ADMINISTRATION DEFINITION OF UNIVERSAL COVERAGE

  (Mr. GOSS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GOSS. Mr. Speaker, I guess we are hearing that we are going to go 
back and revisit the Community Health Care Center vote amendment by the 
gentleman from Illinois [Mr. Porter], which passed yesterday. Last time 
we did that in the House and reversed ourselves on a policy matter it 
was Haiti. Today, sadly enough, we are seeing the tragic results play 
themselves out as a result of our extra stupid foreign policy on Haiti 
that resulted from a turnaround vote.
  But let us go to health care. There has been lots of talk about 
universal access. We were told each and every American will have health 
care and a plastic card. But now the White House spokesperson says that 
does not necessarily mean all Americans. Each and every American does 
not mean all Americans. Well, what does that mean?
  Maybe it means that the President's veto pen has no ink in it because 
maybe it means there are not enough members of the President's party 
who are willing to support the Clinton health care plan because we 
already know that the employer mandate side of that is going to cost 
Americans more than 1 million jobs. We know that is not what Americans 
want. We do not want to be losing jobs in this country. We want to be 
providing jobs and providing good health.
  There is a way. There is a solution. We should embrace and focus on 
the Rowland-Bilirakis health care bill.

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