[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 107 (Friday, August 5, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: August 5, 1994]
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  STOPPING PORK-BARREL POLITICS FROM INFECTING THE HEALTH CARE DEBATE

  (Mr. ZIMMER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ZIMMER. Mr. Speaker, we are all familiar with the hundreds of 
millions of dollars in favors that were dispensed by the White House in 
exchange for votes for the North American Free-Trade Act. Now it looks 
like this let's-make-a-deal attitude has become a part of the health 
care reform process. Yesterday the Wall Street Journal ran an editorial 
that said, and I quote, ``The White House and Democratic leadership 
have decided to get this thing passed the old-fashioned way: They're 
cutting deals, any deals whatever * * *''
  I would like my colleagues to know that I will be introducing the 
Health Care Pork Repeal Act to rescind all the pork-for-votes deals 
that we can identify. I ask my colleagues and I ask the public to keep 
your eyes open and let me know about any deals that you become aware of 
so we can include them in this legislation. We need to put an end to 
what the Wall Street Journal called the pork spectacle.

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