[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 94 (Tuesday, July 19, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: July 19, 1994]
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                         BOSTON TEA PARTY REDUX

  (Mr. SMITH of Texas asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SMITH of Texas. Mr. Speaker, the Nation's Governors have been 
meeting in Boston this week. They have already let it be known just 
what they think of the President's big Government, big spender health 
care plan.
  According to the press, the Governors said the Clinton plan ``would 
put 40 percent of Americans in a costly, Government-run entitlement 
program.'' Democratic Gov. Lawton Chiles called it a disaster.
  This uprising calls to mind another one 220 years ago, when people 
threatened by a system they saw as oppressive filled Boston Harbor with 
tea.
  Today, President Clinton comes to town wearing a redcoat as he tries 
to fish out his soggy health care tea.
  His system, as the Governors recognize, will push tens of millions of 
Americans into Government health care waiting rooms, where the emphasis 
will be more on Government and waiting than either health or care. 
That's what you get with a Government monopoly.
  If the President thinks Americans are eager to receive this 
treatment, he will be in deeper water than the health care plan he 
seeks to save.

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