[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 110 (Wednesday, August 10, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: August 10, 1994]
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                              WAIT A WHILE

  (Mr. LINDER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. LINDER. Mr. Speaker, the Democrat leadership has decided to push 
back 1 week the August recess for the House in order to vote on health 
care. Apparently, the majority believes the less contact Members have 
with their constituents, the better chance they have of passing their 
health care bill.
  That might make sense to the chief vote counters of the Democrat 
leadership, but it makes little political or policy sense.
  Mr. Speaker, we have been elected here to represent the views of the 
American people, not to ignore them.
  The best way to hear those concerns is to go home before we vote on 
health care reform, give the media and the Members a chance to explain 
the alternatives, and get the voters' reactions.
  For the life of me, I just do not understand why we can't take this 
route to health care reform.
  Fanaticism has been defined as redoubling your efforts when you have 
forgotten your goal. It seems the Democrat majority has forgotten the 
goal of health care reform while redoubling their efforts to jam a plan 
down the throats of the American people.

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