[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 62 (Tuesday, April 4, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H4115]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




   LAST-MINUTE CHANGE IN TAX LEGISLATION TERMED ``BUSINESS AS USUAL''

  (Mr. WARD asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. WARD. Mr. Speaker, I was just elected in 1994. I am a freshman, 
and I was in the Kentucky Legislature for 5 years before that. And, Mr. 
Speaker, we had a rule in the Kentucky Legislature, a hard-and-fast 
rule, that if language was changed in a bill when it went to 
conference, if language was different from the way we passed it when it 
came back from conference, we were told it was subject to what we call 
here a point of order. If we were not told what was in that change on 
the floor, in front of the entire body, in front of the public, in 
front of the people, it could not be considered.
  What we have just seen, Mr. Speaker, is a change in a bill, a good 
bill, to provide self-employed people the opportunity to deduct the 
cost of their health care insurance, a bill we are all for, changed to 
help one person.
  Well, Mr. Speaker, that is business as usual, and that is not why the 
voters changed what was going on up here.


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