[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 33 (Tuesday, March 12, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H2039]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                CONGRESS SELLS OUT TO SPECIAL INTERESTS

  (Ms. DeLAURO asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, my Republican colleagues continue to 
confuse the onset of spring with the continuation of Halloween. They 
continue to masquerade as the friend of working Americans but are still 
the defenders of the special interests.
  They unveiled their new health care reform plan. They are loading 
down a bipartisan straightforward health care reform bill with lots of 
special interest goodies.
  Who benefits from these provisions? Is it the working families 
struggling to pay health care bills? No, that is not who. Their 
proposal would provide a financial windfall for the Golden Rule 
Insurance Co., providers of over $1 million in contributions to 
Republican political action committees.
  This attempt to appease special interests is particularly 
disappointing because it wastes an opportunity to pass real bipartisan 
health care reform in this Congress. Sadly, when the gavel drops to 
open debate on this legislation, it will mark the start of yet another 
auction where this Congress sells out the public interest to the 
special interests.

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