[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 94 (Tuesday, July 19, 1994)]
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 HEALTH CARE REFORM IS TOO IMPORTANT TO BE DECIDED BEHIND CLOSED DOORS

  (Ms. DUNN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. DUNN. Mr. Speaker, as I take the floor, North Korean Communist 
leaders are meeting behind closed doors to select the successor to the 
late Kim Il Sung, the so-called Great Leader. That is the way important 
decisions are made in an anti-democratic country--behind closed doors.
  This is not how we should make decisions in America. And yet, this is 
exactly how the Democrat leadership is deciding the fate of our 
Nation's health care system--behind closed doors. This decision will 
affect every man, woman, and child in America. It will affect one-
seventh of our Nation's economy.
  Mr. Speaker, health care reform is too important to be decided behind 
closed doors. It is too important to be decided without an open rule 
that would allow the democratically elected Members of Congress to 
debate this issue openly.
  Mr. Speaker, this is America, the land of the free, this is not North 
Korea. We request, and democracy requires, a free and open rule on 
health care reform.

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