[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 137 (Tuesday, September 27, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: September 27, 1994]
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                           HEALTH CARE REFORM

  (Mr. GENE GREEN of Texas asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GENE GREEN of Texas. Mr. Speaker, yesterday on the Senate side 
Majority Leader Mitchel held a press conference telling America what 
most 178,000 families and 148,000 working families in my district did 
not want to hear: the death of health care reform. This passing should 
not go quietly into the night. For the senior citizens in my district 
who must decide between pay for prescription drugs, turning on their 
electricity, or buying groceries, or for the 55,000 children in my 
district who are not covered, Congress let them down.
  The lack of health care reform will not help the millions of 
Americans who are without health care. More importantly it will not 
help Americans who are barred from obtaining health care coverage for 
much reasons as preexisting conditions, cost, or family history.
  Congress should take the lead in health care reform to provide all 
Americans with health care coverage. In the 104th Congress, we must all 
work together to make the best health care system in the world open to 
all Americans and not just the wealthy or well insured. Partisanship 
should not dictate how health care reform should be framed. Congress 
should learn from the past 2 years that without working together, it is 
not Congress who is the worse off but the American people. We are 
elected to represent not only our districts but all Americans, and we 
have left millions without hope for the future.

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