[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 110 (Wednesday, August 10, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: August 10, 1994]
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                      TUNE OUT, TURN OFF, DROP OUT

  (Mr. HOBSON asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HOBSON. Mr. Speaker, the President has decided to support the 
Senate majority leader's health care reform bill, saying it is a good 
start.
  It is a good start, all right. It is a good start to the complete 
takeover of our economy by the Government. In fact, the Clinton-
Mitchell bill creates 47 brandnew bureaucracies to administer his plan.
  You have to wonder if the Democrats got Timothy Leary's advice all 
wrong: Instead of turn on, tune in, drop out, it is tune out, turn off. 
drop out.
  It seems the President and the Senate majority have decided to tune 
out the advice of the American people: Government is too big and spends 
too much.
  And by tuning out the wishes of the people, the President has turned 
off the electorate. That explains why the name Clinton is enough to 
kill any health care reform bill and why the Democrat leadership is so 
anxious to change the name of the President's bill.
  Most voters wish that the President would drop out of the health care 
debate.

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