[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 110 (Wednesday, August 10, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: August 10, 1994]
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 REPUBLICANS DID VOTE FOR SOCIAL SECURITY, MEDICARE, CIVIL RIGHTS, ET 
                                 CETERA

  (Mr. EHLERS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. EHLERS. Mr. Speaker, I hope the previous speaker remains in the 
room to hear the fact that he is all wrong. However, he has gotten his 
information from the Vice President, who is also wrong, when they said 
that Republicans did not support Social Security and Republicans did 
not support Medicare.
  I am here to talk about the pluses and minuses of the health care 
bill but simply to point out the erroneous assumption. If you look at 
the chart, you discover that 83 percent of the Republicans voted for 
the Social Security Act and more Republicans than Democrats voted for 
the Civil Rights Act and 47 percent of the Republicans voted for 
Medicare.

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  Now, when I went to school, that is considerably more than zero 
percent, and yet we are being forced by the Democrats in this Congress, 
we are being forced out of the discussion, and we may have a situation 
where only 2 percent, or even less, of the Republicans vote for the 
health care bill simply because the majority party has refused to share 
the information with us, has refused to give us a copy of the bill, and 
more or less they have told us they do not want us involved, and they 
want to pass their bill on their terms and ignore us.
  Mr. Speaker, that is what I am objecting to as a Member of the body 
who supports health care reform. I want the opportunity to work with 
them and work on the health care bill.

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