[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 89 (Tuesday, July 12, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: July 12, 1994]
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             THE CLINTON HEALTH PLAN WILL COST AMERICA JOBS

  (Mr. BALLENGER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BALLENGER. Madam Speaker, the only thing that people in this town 
will agree upon when it comes to the health care reform is that the 
Clinton health care plan or, for that matter, any of its relatives, 
will cost us jobs.
  No matter who you talk to, the Congressional Budget Office, the 
Employment Policies Institute, the Tax Foundation, or the Employment 
Benefit Research Institute, to name only a few, they all agree that 
jobs will be lost.
  The only real bone of contention is how many. The estimated job 
losses range from a low of 600,000 to a high of 3.8 million with the 
average being somewhere around a loss of 1 million jobs. The low 
estimate of 600,000 comes from none other than the President's chief 
economist herself, Laura Tyson.
  Madam Speaker, I do not know about others, but I always thought that 
the President of the United States should be in the job construction 
business and not the job destruction business.

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