[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 137 (Tuesday, September 27, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: September 27, 1994]
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                    BIPARTISAN HEALTH INSURANCE BILL

  Ms. MIKULSKI. Thank you, Mr. President.
  Before the Senator from Rhode Island leaves the floor, first, I would 
like to thank the Senator from Rhode Island for his effort to fashion a 
bipartisan health insurance bill. The Senator has played a very 
important role in the debate and also, I believe, in helping us develop 
a framework to be taken up in fiscal year 1995.
  I would like to thank him not only for his work but the spirit with 
which he went about it. I always had a sense of welcoming when we have 
talked with both him and his staff. I think that is the way we ought to 
be doing things. I just wanted to say that.
  Mr. CHAFEE. If I might, I would like to thank the distinguished 
Senator very much for those kinds remarks, and the cochairman of the 
coalition, mainstream coalition, is our Presiding Officer currently. So 
I think he also----
  Ms. MIKULSKI. I was going to say something about him in a minute.
  Mr. CHAFEE. Deserves great credit. I think all of us who are part of 
that coalition found it a very, very exciting undertaking, where 
everybody was working toward a common goal. We were trying to come up 
with health care legislation that could be accepted and passed this 
year.
  We appreciate the kind comments the manager of the bill made just now 
and also for her input. The distinguished Senator from Maryland joined 
with us on several occasions and was of valuable assistance.

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