[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 25 (Wednesday, February 8, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H1378]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




               TRUTH NEEDED ABOUT SURGEON GENERAL NOMINEE

  (Mr. McINNIS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. McINNIS. Mr. Speaker, well, we have another issue boiling out 
there. It is the issue of the appointment of the Surgeon General, and 
this issue is about credibility, credibility, credibility, credibility.
  This is how the story goes so far. The Surgeon General has the 
administration supply information to the chairwoman of the Senate 
committee which will hear the confirmation. That information is that he 
had only performed one abortion.
  Later in the day that is revised by the nominee, who says, ``Well, it 
was not really one. I think it was less than a dozen.''
  Now all of a sudden out there it was not one, it was not a dozen, it 
is 700.
  What is the truth? I am very concerned that we will get a Surgeon 
General nominee out there who is going to draw away and distract from 
the real issues of health care in this country and make the focus his 
credibility. If he is not telling the truth, if the administration is 
not giving us the truth, he ought to step out and let somebody else in.


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