[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 87 (Thursday, June 13, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H6290]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    EXTREME, EXTREMER, AND EXTREMIST

  (Mr. SCHUMER asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SCHUMER. Mr. Speaker, the election in the Senate yesterday gives 
the American people some idea of where the Republican Party is going. 
The three top leaders in the Senate now, like the three top leaders in 
the House, are far over on the far right extreme, far away from the 
mainstream American. Not a single moderate Republican is in the House 
leadership or the Senate leadership. That relates to what the Speaker 
came to talk about today.
  Americans want portability. They want portability in health care. 
They do not know about any newfangled proposal on MSA's that have come 
up because some big insurance magnet is pushing it with big 
contributions. Move portability without any of these other ideological 
bells and whistles, and you will help the American people. I say, in 
conclusion, we now have three leaders in the House and Senate: extreme, 
extremer, extremist. Do not let that vitiate the kind of mainstream 
health care policy that the American people want.

                          ____________________