[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 101 (Thursday, July 28, 1994)]
[House]
[Page H]
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[Congressional Record: July 28, 1994]
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               REPUBLICANS BENT ON DEFEATING HEALTH CARE

  (Ms. DeLAURO asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. DeLAURO Mr. Speaker, I have in front of me a copy of a memo from 
a group called the Project for the Republican Future to the Republican 
leadership in Congress. While the memo is only a few pages long it 
speaks volumes about a Republican Party bent on defeating the most 
important legislation of our time: Health care reform.
  The memo advises Republicans to reject health care legislation, and I 
quote ``sight unseen.'' Because, the memo reads: ``health care reform 
is now about politics and absolutely nothing else.''
  Well, Democrats believe health care reform is not about politics, it 
is about people--the small business owner struggling to keep pace with 
health care costs; senior citizens forced to make the choice between 
prescription drugs or their next meal; the father who lies awake at 
night worrying that one accident or one illness will drive his family 
to financial ruin.
  These people are what health care reform is about and for Republicans 
to ignore their needs in favor of a cynical political strategy is 
unconscionable.

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