[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 106 (Thursday, August 4, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: August 4, 1994]
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                 COMPROMISE IS NECESSARY ON HEALTH CARE

  (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, after months of trying to pass his health 
care plan strictly with Democratic votes, the President has been told 
by his own leadership that his plan is dead. The President's reaction 
during his news conference last night was to blame Republicans for not 
compromising with him.
  Republicans have been trying to forge a bipartisan agreement on 
health care for months. Our leaders, Bob Michel and Newt Gingrich, have 
strongly endorsed the ongoing efforts of Congressmen Rowland and 
Bilirakis to write a reasonable health care bill which will get strong 
support from both Republicans and Democrats. I am a cosponsor of their 
bill.
  Compromise does not mean shifting blame. Compromise means that the 
President will have to abandon the parts of his plan which have been 
widely rejected by the American people. They do not want the huge new 
taxes, mandates on businesses which will kill jobs, and expanded 
Government bureaucracy, all of which are contained in both the Clinton-
Gephardt and the Clinton-Kennedy-Mitchell bills.
  I hope the President will stop playing the blame game and join our 
effort to write a bipartisan health bill.

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