[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 117 (Friday, August 2, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H9838]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                               A THREEFER

  (Mr. HOKE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HOKE. Mr. Speaker, I guess if the gentleman from New Jersey 
thinks that we delayed it for 18 months, he obviously agrees the 
Democrats delayed it for 5 years.
  Mr. Speaker, we did a threefer this week. A threefer. First of all, 
we passed welfare reform that fundamentally changes the welfare system, 
and it ways no more something for nothing. We are not going to condemn 
people to a cycle of dependency. We will not rip off their dignity and 
their self-worth. Great bill.
  Second, health care reform says that health insurance can be kept 
when individuals leave or change their jobs. It provides for long-term 
care insurance deductions, fights fraud and abuse, allows self-employed 
health care deductions, and it establishes for the first time the one 
thing that is going to put consumers, patients, back in the driver's 
seat and take the power away from bureaucracies and insurance 
companies: medical savings accounts. We passed that.
  Today we are going to pass another bill that will make our airports 
safer, that will crack down on terrorism and that is going to make this 
country a safer place to live.
  A threefer for this Congress, Mr. Speaker.

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