[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 117 (Thursday, August 18, 1994)]
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                        THE CLINTON HEALTH BILL

  (Mr. BARTLETT of Maryland asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BARTLETT of Maryland. Mr. Speaker, as we wait to vote on health 
care reform, and that should not happen until after we return in 
September or better in the new year, let us keep one thing in mind: 
Whatever we pass could have easily been passed in February 1993.
  The original Clinton bill was a mistake. The House bill now being 
drafted is a mistake. Reports state that there are about 160 votes for 
it. The liberal leadership in the House has ignored the moderate 
coalitions that voted in Clinton, Bush, and Reagan.
  Here is the proof: The committee and subcommittee chairs of Ways and 
Means and Energy and Commerce all had their own reform bills and none 
have made it to the floor in the last two Congresses. Of the two 
Democratic bills we will probably vote on, one is a single payer plan 
that is supported by less than 50 percent of their party and the other 
is the leadership bill that could only make it to the floor by 
circumventing the entire legislative process.
  The congressional Woodstock generation should stick to music, for 
they have failed miserably at health care reform.

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