[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 102 (Friday, July 29, 1994)]
[House]
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[Congressional Record: July 29, 1994]
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       REPUBLICANS CONTINUE STRATEGY TO DEFEAT HEALTH CARE REFORM

  (Ms. DeLAURO asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. DeLAURO. Madam Speaker, yesterday on the floor, I read parts of a 
strategic memo from the Project for the Republican Future to the 
Republican leadership in Congress. It is an incredible document that 
advises Republicans to defeat health care reform--the theory being that 
health care's defeat will translate to Democratic defeats in November.
  It is hard to believe that Republicans would be willing to sacrifice 
the most important initiative of our time in order to keep Democrats 
from getting any credit for it. But here it is in black and white, and 
I quote: ``We should send them to the voters empty-handed.''
  In its zest to win elections, The Project for the Republican Future 
seems to have forgotten America's future. They have forgotten the 40 
million uninsured; forgotten the 80 million Americans with preexisting 
conditions; forgotten millions of small businesses who pay 30 to 50 
percent more than their larger competitors for health care.
  If Republicans are successful in their effort to thwart the public 
will and defeat health care reform, it will not be Democrats left 
empty-handed, it will be the American people.

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