[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 110 (Wednesday, August 10, 1994)]
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 HEALTH CARE REFORM: EVERY HARDWORKING AMERICAN, DEMOCRATS 
                        AND REPUBLICANS, NEED IT

  (Mr. FAZIO asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. FAZIO. Mr. Speaker, just this week the GOP drill sergeant, Bill 
Kristol, unleashed the latest of his obstructionist manifestos on 
health care. In a memo on that subject to the Republican leadership, 
Mr. Kristol said the GOP should mount, and I quote, ``a cold-eyed 
effort to tip the Democratic leadership into the abyss where they 
belong.'' He urged Republicans, and I quote again, ``Drive, (Senator 
George) Mitchell into a ditch.'' Not what I would call a thoughtful 
policy recommendation.
  He advised his charges to, and I quote again, ``Throw as much sand 
into the gears as possible.'' And Kristol has never been repudiated by 
any Republican leadership.
  I think I speak for all Americans when I say to the Republican 
partisans, ``It is time to come out of your sandbox. It is time to 
abandon the phony politics, the policy-by-pollster approach you seem to 
embrace, and do something for the people, for a change. And when you 
are ready to bury your obstructionist battle plans, we look forward to 
working with you in a spirit of true bipartisanship to insure we get a 
health plan for every hardworking American family, Democrats and 
Republicans alike.''

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