[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 61 (Monday, April 3, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H4080]
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                  FURTHER SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT

  (Mrs. SCHROEDER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mrs. SCHROEDER. Mr. Speaker, I just wanted to say that my point was, 
No. 1, Members did not know that the House had yielded to the Senate on 
this issue when this bill came to the floor. This was portrayed as a 
bill in which we were trying to help people get their tax credit back 
for health care. That is what we were told about.
  We were told this was done away with across the board. We were not 
told there was one special little loophole, oops.
  Now, I do not know if the press report is correct or not, but it says 
it was verified by six Republican staffers. So that is quite a few.
  Maybe they were all wrong. I do not know. I am not on the committee.
  But as a Member of this House, I resent it when we have a conference 
report come back with a goodie in it and we are not told about it.
  Mr. MILLER of California. Mr. Speaker, will the gentlewoman yield?
  Mrs. SCHROEDER. I am happy to yield to the gentleman from California.
  Mr. MILLER of California. Mr. Speaker, the whole point of the 
provision of the Ways and Means bill was to cancel these business 
deals, to cancel them retroactively, and Rupert Murdoch was able to 
hold on to his deal, and nobody else was, and those are the facts. 
Those may not be the facts the gentleman from Texas likes, but those 
are the facts.

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