[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 107 (Friday, August 5, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: August 5, 1994]
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                              HEALTH CARE

  Mr. CRAIG. Mr. President, very briefly on another matter in a 
colloquy moment or two ago by the majority leader and the Republican 
leader about health care, there was a mention that the Senator from 
Texas had used the term ``Gestapo tactics.'' He did not. And he spoke 
to that issue.
  In a press interview yesterday afternoon, I questioned with great 
concern a terminology and a proposal inside the Clinton-Mitchell health 
care bill that spoke to fraud squads. I said if these were not properly 
regulated clearly Gestapo-like tactics that had been used by other 
Federal agencies over time to break into private property and to demand 
the opening of books for certain purposes that once appeared to be 
legitimate could occur.
  I did use that term and I meant it out of real concerns as we discuss 
these tactics and these bills and these very critical pieces of 
legislation that we are extremely cautious we do not give Federal 
agencies priority and responsibility in enforcement well beyond what 
they should have. That is where that term may have appeared in certain 
press releases.
  I thank the chairman for yielding.

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