[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 107 (Friday, August 5, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: August 5, 1994]
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                LET US VOTE ON HEALTH CARE IN SEPTEMBER

  (Mr. BLILEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BLILEY. Mr. Speaker, here we go again. We have four bills that 
have not been drafted, that are, indeed, changing daily, have not been 
scored, and yet you tell us we will be voting on them in 2 weeks. Most 
of them will be over a thousand pages long.
  Mr. Speaker, the CBO has not had a chance to score them. This is not 
the end of the process, Mr. Speaker.
  We should draft these bills. We should have them available to the 
public, the 250 million Americans who will be vitally affected by what 
we do or what we do not do. Let them read it, read it ourselves, 
indeed, and come back the first week in September and vote on it.
  That is good policy, that is good procedure, and that is what we 
should follow.

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