[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 58 (Wednesday, May 1, 1996)]
[House]
[Pages H4307-H4308]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                PERFECTING THE CASH-AND-CARRY GOVERNMENT

  (Ms. McKINNEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Ms. McKINNEY. Mr. Speaker, last week, the Senate voted unanimously in 
favor of a health care reform bill that did not include costly medical 
savings accounts. In fact, the other body voted explicitly on April 18 
to keep medical savings accounts out of the bill.
  Now the presumptive Republican nominee for President wants to appoint 
to the conference committee Senators whose sole purpose will be to 
force MSA's into the bill when no one is looking. You can tell a lot 
about a man the way they act when they think no one is watching.
  I guess we're supposed to ignore the fact that the Golden Rule 
Insurance Co. has given $1.4 million in campaign contributions to 
Republicans. And that Golden Rule also happens to be the premier 
company peddling MSA's. Regardless of how the Senate voted, Golden Rule 
will get its way through the back door.
  Mr. Speaker, this buyout is just one more fine example of how the GOP 
has perfected the art of cash-and-carry Government.

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                     ALLOWING CHOICE IN HEALTH CARE

  (Mr. EWING asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. EWING. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Arizona [Mr. 
Hayworth].
  Mr. HAYWORTH. Mr. Speaker, as we take a look at what has been said in 
the preceding speech, I think it is the proper question to ask, or the 
proper contention to make, are----


                         parliamentary inquiry

  Mr. GENE GREEN of Texas. Mr. Speaker, I have a parliamentary inquiry.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman will state it.
  Mr. GENE GREEN of Texas. Mr. Speaker, is it permissible to yield in 
1-minutes?
  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Gutknecht). The gentleman from Illinois 
[Mr. Ewing] controls the time. The Chair is informed by the 
Parliamentarian he may yield to the gentleman from Arizona [Mr. 
Hayworth] while remaining on his feet.
  Mr. GENE GREEN of Texas. Just so we all understand the rules.
  Mr. HAYWORTH. Mr. Speaker, reclaiming my time, I would simply make 
this point: The American people are watching, not for partisan 
squabbling, but asking this question: What works? And the notion that 
medical savings accounts, where people control their own destiny, where 
people are able to visit the doctors they want to see and seek the 
treatment they feel is best, is at the very heart of our American 
system. And to suggest that it is some sort of cheap political ploy is 
once again to at least ignore the facts or to engage in deliberate 
disinformation and distortion to cloud the picture and to again try to 
confuse the American public, instead of allowing the American public 
what they deserve, and that is choice health care.


                         parliamentary inquiry

  Ms. McKINNEY. Mr. Speaker, I have a parliamentary inquiry.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentlewoman will state it.
  Ms. McKINNEY. Mr. Speaker, is it not correct that $1.4 million was 
given to the Republican candidates by the Golden Rule Insurance Co. and 
now the Republicans are trying to put----
  Mr. HAYWORTH. Mr. Speaker, objection. That is not a parliamentary 
inquiry. She is making a political speech.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair would inform the gentlewoman that 
that is not a parliamentary inquiry.

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