[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 111 (Thursday, August 11, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: August 11, 1994]
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  LET'S CONSULT THE PEOPLE--THE NEED FOR AN ORDERLY PROCESS ON HEALTH 
                                  CARE

  (Mr. HORN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HORN. Mr. Speaker, the next week will bring this Congress and the 
Nation the historic opportunity to debate the health care reform 
proposals. For many of us, it may be the most important vote we cast in 
this House. It is quite probable that no other issue will have more 
impact on the lives of each and every American. It is critical, then, 
to take the time to do this right.
  Mr. Speaker, if this were a schoolhouse and the students showed up, 
and the teacher was ordered by the principal to give them all the 
homework for the whole semester and have it done tomorrow morning, the 
parents of the students would revolt, go to the school board and ask 
that the principal be removed.
  Mr. Speaker, the people of America should revolt and go to the 
leadership of this House and ask that they be removed. This type of a 
railroad train violates every common sense rule of a parliament that 
ought to give due deliberation to complex legislation.
  One sentence in one of the many thousands of pages of four or five of 
the bills can mean $10 billion.
  Mr. Speaker, this House should not be steamrollered and ramrodded 
into misconduct in the legislative arena. What is the rush? Why next 
week when the bills are not even printed?
  Let us do this in an orderly way--read the bills, discuss them, 
explain them in the district to our constituents, then--after Labor 
Day--return to this chamber, debate the issues, and vote to meet the 
needs of the 37 million Americans who have no health care coverage.

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