[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 112 (Friday, August 12, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: August 12, 1994]
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                   HEALTH CARE REFORM: WHY THE RUSH?

  (Mr. HEFLEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HEFLEY. Mr. Speaker, as public support drops through the floor 
for the Clinton health care plan, due to its call for a huge new 
bureaucracy and job-killing mandates, the Democrat leadership has 
decided to appear to present a whole new bill to the House, the 
Gephardt health care plan.
  Mr. Speaker, just as things are never as they appear, the legislation 
to be offered, the Clinton-Gephardt bill is nothing new.
  The same huge new bureaucracy and job-killing mandates are included 
in this newly disguised package.
  The House Democrat leadership thinks that a name change will fool the 
American people; well, it will not.
  Mr. Speaker, why the rush to crowd this in in August? It appears to 
me that the Democrat leadership is terrified that we might go back to 
the people we are supposed to represent and we might get their opinion 
and we might come back and see the Gephardt-Clinton plan for what it 
is.

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