[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 64 (Thursday, April 6, 1995)]
[House]
[Pages H4338-H4339]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


              CONGRESS MUST BE TOLD WHAT IS IN LEGISLATION

  (Mrs. SCHROEDER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mrs. SCHROEDER. Mr. Speaker, I stand in this well to admit that I was 
wrong, and I must correct my remarks. I have been here several times 
protesting the $63 million that we heard Rupert Murdoch got slipped 
into the bill that was to give relief to middle Americans on their 
health care coverage. Well, I find out it is not $63 million, it is 
more like $38 million.
  [[Page H4339]] But I am still just as outraged that he would get this 
$38 million rebate on the backs of the middle class.
  I do not know what we can do at the end to correct this. We have 
introduced bills. We have tried to bring it to the floor, and today I 
am introducing one more bill that says in the future when this process 
is used to slip something in that this body never considered nor knew 
was in there, we must be told. I think it is unbelievable these kinds 
of games are going on, and I think the American public expects a whole 
lot more from us.
  I think we are here to protect them and not to line the pockets of 
fat cats.

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