[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 99 (Tuesday, July 26, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: July 26, 1994]
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             INVOLVE AMERICAN PEOPLE IN HEALTH CARE DEBATE

  (Mr. GINGRICH asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GINGRICH. Mr. Speaker, it is 24 days since I watched on C-SPAN as 
the Senate Finance Committee supposedly reported out a health bill. We 
just called a few minutes ago and there is no legislative language. 
That is right. Over 3 weeks after they supposedly passed a bill, there 
is no bill.
  The reason I raised this for the House to pay attention to is that 
there are reports in the press that the Democratic leadership in the 
House and Senate intend to write bills, bring them to the floor without 
hearings, bring them to the floor without the country seeing them, 
bring them to the floor without people knowing what is in them. I 
simply want to repeat what I said on Friday: We would be better off, 
the country would be better off, the House would be better off if we 
would agree to report out in writing both the bipartisan bill that we 
are working on and the Clinton bill the Democratic leadership is 
working on, go to the country for the August recess, let people read 
what is in them, let the experts critique them, let the news media 
report on them, and then vote the first week of September.
  Mr. Speaker, we are not afraid to let the American people see what is 
in our bill. Why is the Democratic leadership afraid to let the 
American people see what is in their health bill?

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