[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 39 (Wednesday, March 20, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H2472]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




               KENNEDY-KASSEBAUM HEALTH CARE REFORM BILL

  (Ms. McKINNEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. McKINNEY. Mr. Speaker, in this era of corporate downsizing and 
mass layoffs, working families have to fear, not only losing their 
jobs, but also their health insurance.
  To allay this fear, 53 Senators have cosponsored the bipartisan, 
Kennedy-Kassebaum health care reform bill which is likely to pass in 
the Senate. Here in the House, Mr. Speaker, 186 Members--from both 
parties--have cosponsored a similar health care reform bill sponsored 
by Republican Congresswoman Marge Roukema.
  Fearing broad bipartisan support for health care reform, however, the 
ninjas in the Republican leadership have begun their clever sabotage of 
the only real chance that health care reform has in this Congress. 
Rather than supporting the Roukema bill, they are pushing their own 
bill which they know the President will have to veto. Sadly, Mr. 
Speaker, I am sure the insurance industry is standing by to handsomely 
reward this sabotage.

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