[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 139 (Thursday, September 29, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: September 29, 1994]
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             THE AMERICAN PEOPLE KILLED HEALTH CARE REFORM

  (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, the leader of the other body has pulled the 
plug on health care, and do you know who is to blame for no health care 
reform this year? He says it is the Republicans that are to blame for 
no health care reform.
  Now, maybe I am confused. I thought that the Democratic Party had the 
majority in both houses and could do anything they could agree upon 
doing. But, no, it is the Republicans, they say, that are at fault for 
no health care reform.
  Why could he not have just been honest? Why could he not have said we 
made a mistake? And the mistake we made was letting the American public 
find out what was in the health care bill. We could have passed it, had 
the American people not found out.
  The people found out they did not want less choice, a giant 
bureaucracy, major tax increases, rationing, employer mandates, and on 
and on. So it was not the Republicans and it was not the talk show 
hosts that killed health care reform in this session of Congress. It 
was the American people, who found out, and is not it about time we 
began to listen to the voice of the American people?

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