I was just elected in 1994. I am a freshman, and I was in the Kentucky Legislature for 5 years before that. And, Mr. Speaker, we had a rule in the Kentucky Legislature, a hard-and-fast rule, that if language was changed in a bill when it went to conference, if language was different from the way we passed it when it came back from conference, we were told it was subject to what we call here a point of order. If we were not told what was in that change on the floor, in front of the entire body, in front of the public, in front of the people, it could not be considered. What we have just seen, Mr. Speaker, is a change in a bill, a good bill, to provide self-employed people the opportunity to deduct the cost of their health care insurance, a bill we are all for, changed to help one person. Well, Mr. Speaker, that is business as usual, and that is not why the voters changed what was going on up here.
Chris Ward: “I was just elected in 1994. I am a freshman, and I was in the Kentucky Legislature for 5 years before that. And, Mr.…”
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Discussing changes to a health care bill during a House floor debate.
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