[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 45 (Thursday, March 28, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H2972]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




               REPUBLICANS PAY BACK TO SPECIAL INTERESTS

  (Mr. VOLKMER asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. VOLKMER. Mr. Speaker, the Republicans are at it again. No 
different than we have done in the past here, my colleagues take a good 
bill, one that everything on both sides really has supported to pass, 
the Senate supports it, the President supports it. It is known as the 
Roukema-Kassebaum-Kennedy bill. It provides for portability, it 
provides for health care for preexisting conditions. And then my 
colleagues take that good bill and they put a terrible piece of 
legislation along with it, because they think well, we cannot pass that 
terrible piece of legislation by itself, and we can only pass it if we 
tack it on a big one.
  Mr. Speaker, this is what they are doing. They are tacking it on. And 
what is it? It is payoff time. It is payoff time to the special 
interests of this House, the people that are paying for the 
Republicans' campaign. That is what it is.
  What does the Washington Times say about it? ``Riders imperil health 
reforms.''
  So really, do they want to do health reform? No; they want to pass 
something for their special interests. That is what they want to do. 
Let us vote them down.

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