[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 110 (Wednesday, August 10, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: August 10, 1994]
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             DEMOCRAT HEALTH REFORM PLANS DRAFTED IN SECRET

  (Mr. HEFLEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. HEFLEY. Mr. Speaker, here it is, the Clinton/Mitchell health care 
package, all 1,410 pages of it, which arrived on my desk yesterday 
morning, the very morning that the Senate began debate on it.
  Why now? We have not even seen the Clinton/Gephardt bill at this 
point, and yet in a week from now we are to digest all of this and be 
able to make intelligent decisions about something that will affect the 
American public for generations to come.
  Why not in September? Why not after we have gone home on the break? 
Why not after we have had a chance to digest it? Why not after the 
people of America have had a chance to digest this document? And then 
come back and make an intelligent decision.
  But there lies the rub. If we go home and people find out what is in 
this, they will not want it. The more we know about it the less we like 
it.
  Mr. Speaker, it was written in secret by Hillary and her group; it 
was rewritten in secret by Mitchell, it was rewritten in secret by 
Gephardt.
  A good rule to follow, my friends, is if it must be done in secret, 
we do not want it.

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