[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 100 (Wednesday, July 27, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: July 27, 1994]
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                  FIRST LADY'S HEALTH CARE TASK FORCE

  (Mr. EWING asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. EWING. Mr. Speaker, every day there is some new revelation. Today 
it was reported in the news that the First Lady's defense lawyer now 
claims that her health care reform task force had no influence on the 
content of the President's health care reform bill. The White House has 
now apparently admitted that the task force that the first Lady headed 
was mainly composed of special interests, not Government employees.
  The American people cannot be fooled. It is absolutely clear that the 
task force was assembled to write the Clinton health care plan and 
indeed I am sure the First Lady's comments in the press over the past 
year will confirm that. For her attorney to now deny that the task 
force had any influence on the health care plan is absolutely 
ridiculous. If the task force did not write the plan, who did? What 
were those hundreds of people doing? How much did it cost the 
taxpayers?
  This is another example of how this administration feels it is above 
the law. A trial has been scheduled to determine whether the task force 
broke the law. Now we will know.
  Mr. Speaker, there is no wonder the American people have no 
confidence in the Clinton health care plan.

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