[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 111 (Thursday, August 11, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: August 11, 1994]
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                             CLINTON HEALTH

  (Mr. HEFLEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. HEFLEY. Mr. Speaker, earlier this week, the First Lady lamented 
the overly information-loaded society, that has opposed her attempt at 
health care reform.
  She said that when Social Security was passed, Franklin Roosevelt 
didn't ``have to describe every jot and title of that bill.''
  Maybe he should have, Mr. Speaker. Here it is, 1,410 pages, and the 
First Lady doesn't think we need to know what is in it.
  When it comes to the President's health care bill, the American 
people have to know what the Government is going to do to them. And the 
more they know about the Clinton-Gephardt health care bill, the less 
they like it.
  According to CBO, its 47 new bureaucracies will add $9 billion to the 
budget deficit.
  And its 175 new mandates on the States are, according to CBO, 
unworkable.
  Mr. Speaker, the First Lady should not lament the fact the American 
people are actually finding out about Clinton health. She should lament 
the fact that Clinton health is bad for the country.

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