[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 139 (Thursday, September 29, 1994)]
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  DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 1995, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 
   SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS AND RESCISSIONS ACT, 1994--CONFERENCE 
                                 REPORT

  The Senate continued with the consideration of the amendments in 
disagreement to the conference report.


                Amendment No. 2595 to Amendment No. 2594

  Mr. WOFFORD. Mr. President, I just want briefly to make clear where 
we are and what my intentions are in regard to the amendment that I 
have been putting forth.
  I want to stress once again that I strongly support Senator Cohen's 
amendment relating to fraud and abuse. It is, as he said, in all of the 
bills that we have been working on not idly but hard. It is also in the 
7 points that I proposed as a small step to Senator Mitchell and 
Senator Dole a little while ago.
  I look forward to voting for it. I do not know what its fate will be 
in the House. But I look forward very much to working with the Senator 
from Maine to see that it becomes a reality.
  I also want to make sure, to the best of my ability, that we have an 
up-or-down vote in due course on my amendment which under the 
procedural amendments that we had today is no longer before this body 
but which will be once again before this body when I get recognition to 
move it in due course, which I will do, because I do believe that 
Members of Congress should not take from the taxpayers the kind of 
affordable private health insurance that they will not guarantee for 
the taxpayers, their employers.
  I do not need to restate the case tonight. When we come to an up-or-
down vote, before that we will have a chance to hear any other views, 
but it seems to me that it is a self-evident truth that what is so good 
for us, and it is a good plan, the last thing I ever intend to do when 
I came here is to take that plan away from Members of Congress, but I 
think it is a self-evident truth that if we are not willing to take 
action to assure the American people the kind of choice of private 
health insurance guaranteed with our employer, the taxpayers, 
contributing the majority of our health insurance, then I think we 
should not be requiring the taxpayers to pay for our health insurance.
  I think it is a proposition that is of such basic fairness that it 
will be very difficult to explain to people why we will not take 
action, but we are going to insist upon holding to the benefits that we 
have established for ourselves.
  So I look forward to that debate and an up-or-down vote.
  I yield the floor.
  Mr. KOHL. Mr. President, I suggest the absence of a quorum.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The absence of a quorum having been suggested, 
the clerk will call the roll.
  The bill clerk proceeded to call the roll.
  Mr. KOHL. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for 
the quorum call be rescinded.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

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