[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 110 (Wednesday, August 10, 1994)]
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  DEMOCRAT HEALTH CARE PLANS CONTAIN TOO MANY TAXES AND TOO MANY JOB-
                            KILLING MANDATES

  (Mr. BOEHNER asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. BOEHNER. Mr. Speaker, my colleagues, I have good news and bad 
news. The good news is that the Democrat leaders on Capital Hill killed 
the Clinton bill because the American people thought it had too many 
new taxes, too much bureaucracy and job-killing mandates. The bad news 
is that the proposals being floated here on Capitol Hill, in the other 
body and here in the House, have the same big Government bureaucracies 
and job-killing mandates. I do not think the liberals here in Congress 
get it yet. The American people know that Government is too big and 
spends too much.
  If you begin to look at the so-called moderate Senate proposal, the 
so-called Clinton-Mitchell bill, it has 17 new taxes and 35 new 
Government bureaucracies. If you look at the Clinton-Gephardt bill--if 
you can find it--it does not exist yet--we hear it has at least 17 new 
taxes, maybe 50 Government bureaucracies.
  The American people said ``no'' to the Clinton plan, and if we ever 
get to see the Clinton-Gephardt plan, they will say ``no'' to that as 
well.

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