[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 100 (Wednesday, July 27, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: July 27, 1994]
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                          TALES FROM THE CRYPT

  (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, in its enthusiasm to sell its health 
care plan the Clinton White House has pulled out all the stops on its 
rhetoric.
  Recently, they have been trumpeting the support their plan has from 
some 300 small businesses.
  There is just one problem: Many of these claimed supporters are not. 
According to Business Week many of the listed businesses actually 
oppose the plan and dozens more have never heard of the Clinton 
coalition.
  However, the Clinton health care proponents did not stop at falsely 
claiming converts; they even went so far as to raise the dead. One of 
the White House's claimed supporters, Louis Slotnick of Chicago, passed 
away 19 years ago.
  The Clintons may be underselling the healing powers of their health 
plan if they are able to get Mr. Slotnicks support for it.
  Actually, it is appropriate that the Clinton plan is seeking support 
from this quarter at the same time that it is losing it among the 
living.
  Instead of taking a bus to rally support for their plan, the White 
House should be taking a hearse.

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