[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 165 (Tuesday, October 24, 1995)]
[House]
[Pages H10647-H10648]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           WHERE IS THE BILL?

  (Mr. STUPAK asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. STUPAK. Mr. Speaker, we are going to vote on reconciliation this 
week, and the last speaker in the well said that they are going to keep 
their contract provisions and give everybody a tax break. Well, here is 
a draft of the reconciliation bill. It is 1,563 pages. On page 1,563 
title 19 says, contract tax provisions, text to be supplied. Text to be 
supplied.
  They do not have a bill. We will never see the bill, but they are 
going to expect every one of us, 435, to vote on it come Thursday, a 
bill we have never seen.
  Mr. Speaker, we know from the past 10 months what the Republican plan 


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will do. It will eliminate Medicaid coverage for over 69,000 children 
in Michigan. We know it will jeopardize the immunization program for 
children in Michigan. We know that over 600,000 children in Michigan 
will have their taxes raised by an average of $380 by the year 2002. We 
know that they deny Head Start over 7,000 children in Michigan. We know 
that there are nutrition programs that will be cut in this 
reconciliation package.
  Before we vote, I hope we get the whole text of the reconciliation 
bill and not just false promises.

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