[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 94 (Tuesday, July 19, 1994)]
[House]
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[Congressional Record: July 19, 1994]
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                      GOVERNING IS NOT A CAMPAIGN

  (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, contrary to what the White House war room 
political consultants might believe, governance is not like a campaign. 
Every time you run into trouble, you cannot just climb aboard a bus and 
run over the truth. The truth is, many people who have to live with the 
Big Government medicine prescribed up by the administration spin 
doctors are refusing to accept the Clinton health treatment--or the 
hybrid that is likely to come out of behind-closed-doors Democrat-only 
meetings now feverishly underway. Americans understand a lot more than 
the ``Trust-me-I'm-from-the government'' types at the White House give 
them credit for. Most Americans do not want job-killing mandates; they 
do not want Big-Government bureaucrats making choices for them and they 
do not want to stand in line for care they know they need. They want a 
bipartisan approach that fixes what's broken by building on what works.
  So let us cancel the bus tour and get down to work on Roland-
Bilirakis as a good place to start on bipartisan reform.

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