[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 107 (Friday, August 5, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: August 5, 1994]
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     CLINTON-KENNEDY BILL ACTUALLY WORSE THAN CLINTON-GEPHARDT BILL

  (Mr. GINGRICH asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GINGRICH. Mr. Speaker, once again the Democratic leadership has 
come up with a good press conference and a bad health bill. The 
Clinton-Kennedy bill, introduced by Senator Mitchell, is in fact a bill 
that has 20 new Government agencies and 17 new taxes. It is a bill 
which is so complex and so convoluted that it is actually worse than 
the Clinton-Gephardt bill, which is a giant Government program, but at 
least it is only one giant Government program.
  I simply urge all my colleagues to look very carefully at the 
Clinton-Kennedy bill introduced by Senator Mitchell. I say, ``Make sure 
you understand all the taxes, all the Government agencies, all the 
different ways in which it makes life more complicated, and health more 
expensive and the ways in which it raises taxes, for example, on 
virtually every union member in the country. It raises taxes in a very 
bizarre way on virtually everyone who has a complete health program, 
and it is a very strange bill put together by staff, not yet printed, 
not yet truly seen by anyone, with no hearings held on it. It is, in 
fact, worse than the Clinton-Gephardt bill.''

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