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

  (Mr. HOEKSTRA asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. HOEKSTRA. Mr. Speaker, we are about to begin on an historic 
process, but we have gone through it. We went through it in Education 
and Labor. We spent 8 weeks marking up the Education and Labor health 
care bill.
  Now in 8 days we will measure and mark up a brand new bill. This is 
an outline.
  What do we know is in the Clinton-Gephardt bill? We know there is 
mandates. We know there is subsidies for small businesses. They will be 
phased out by the year 2005. We know there is micromanagement of the 
health care education area. There is global budgeting, regional 
exemptions. There is new taxes, new penalties, more paperwork. And our 
idea of tort reform is that we are going to preempt all the tort reform 
that has taken place at the State level.
  Trying to do health care in 8 days demonstrates Washington and this 
House are out of control.

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