[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 134 (Wednesday, October 6, 1999)]
[House]
[Page H9415]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




   AMERICA NEEDS PATIENTS' BILL OF RIGHTS, NOT LAWYERS' RIGHT TO BILL

  (Mr. HAYWORTH asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HAYWORTH. Mr. Speaker, I really appreciate the outlook of my 
colleague from Connecticut, and it is unique in her interpretation of 
what transpires.
  For example, the silence is deafening from my friends on the left 
when it comes to Communist Chinese contributions to their political 
party and the President of the United States. Very interesting that 
they do not have a word to say about that. Oh, they do talk about 
campaign finance reform. But that is akin to Bonnie and Clyde, at the 
height of their crime spree, calling for a press conference for tougher 
penalties against bank robbery.
  Make no mistake, my friends on the left love trial lawyers, and what 
they want instead of a true patients' bill of rights is a lawyers' 
right to bill. The Wall Street Journal opined yesterday that the left 
has been held hostage by the trial lawyers' lobby.
  I know they will get up and be very clever today, but remember the 
facts: We need a true patients' bill of rights, not a lawyers' right to 
bill.

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