[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 97 (Friday, July 22, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: July 22, 1994]
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                           CLINTON BUSCAPADE

  (Mr. STEARNS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. STEARNS. Mr. Speaker, here comes the Buscapade.
  That is right. The President and Mrs. Clinton are leading a bus full 
of big-government special interest groups across the country, trying to 
sell the American people on a health care plan that is in critical 
condition.
  This is not just any old bus tour. Pay 5,000 bucks, that will buy 1 
day. Pay 20,000 bucks, you're sponsoring an entire route. Maybe the 
President's special interest friends can afford this plan, but the 
average American cannot.
  The White House and the Democrats are up in arms about the 
President's health care plan. One day the President says he will veto a 
plan that is not to his liking. Then, this week he says he is willing 
to give up on job-killing employer mandates. But 5 minutes after he 
said that, the White House says the President did not mean what he 
said.
  Mr. Speaker, the White House needs direction. Polls this week show 
that nearly 60 percent of the American people disapprove of how the 
President is handling health care and the economy. A buscapade across 
America is not going to help those numbers, especially when the bus is 
traveling on the far left side of the road.

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