[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 105 (Wednesday, August 3, 1994)]
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                           WHERE IS THE BILL?

  (Mr. BARTLETT of Maryland asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  (Mr. BARTLETT of Maryland. Mr. Speaker, while the Clinton health care 
reform plan reminds some of Frankenstein, to me it resembles the 
invisible man. Where is the bill? Has anyone seen the bill?
  I have heard about it, I have read about it, but I have never seen 
it. The latest intelligence says that it will be available Monday.
  If I remember correctly, the original Clinton bill was due in the 
spring of 1993. Hillary Clinton promised it would be signed into law in 
the Rose Garden on Christmas Eve as ``a present to the American 
people.'' But it was not introduced as a bill until Thanksgiving of 
1993, and it proved to be a turkey rather than a present.
  And now, here it is August 3, 1994, and still no bill to vote on.
  My colleagues and I would like to see it and have time to study it 
before we vote on it. If it is like the last Clinton present to the 
American people, I am sure we will end up returning this one, too.

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