John Doolittle

I do not see how this could possibly be viewed as constitutional. It singles out a single group of people and punishes in essence their speech, while allowing others to go unpunished for identical conduct. I hope we defeat the rule.

I rise to oppose this rule. It would appear that many Members of this House are unaware that murder, assault, vandalism and trespassing are presently illegal. I bring this up because we have a bill whose advocates insist will provide for…

achieving Government mandated health coverage such as advocated by President Clinton and others will require a Government intrusion into the lives of both employers and individuals. Implementing such a mandate will require the Government…

I rise today in strong support of the Armey amendment to H.R. 6--the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. The purpose of this important amendment is to explicitly state that the Federal Government has no control over any aspect of any…

The President claims that this is a simple plan. I would just say to the gentleman that I have got the bill. It looks like we have in this bill 1,364 pages. I have read this. Some of this is the most convoluted material I have ever read in…

It reminds me of that 1986 Tax Reform and Simplification Act, which was a very large bill similar to this. And you do not hear any body talking about how simple the Tax Code is today. I just have the feeling that the exact same thing is…

Not only do I understand that they came to get away, we need to look into what happened in December, because some very unusual things in Canada happened. They ran out of money and they basically pretty much shut down the health care system…

I shall do so. I just want to observe that of this so- called 37 million who are uninsured, less than 4 percent are uninsured for more than 2 years. By the way, this is, generally speaking, a very health group, because only 2 percent of…

Do we have to go to socialized medicine in order to address some of the legitimate complaints about our present health care delivery system, or is there a way to fix the parts of it that are less desirable, and yet retain the advantages of…

Absolutely. And historically, as we look at socialized medicine in other countries, price control, government artificial price controls are always a component of it. And it always leads to the next step, which is rationing.

Well, I interrupted the gentleman, but I appreciate the elaboration on those two points. What other features does this plan have that smack of socialized medicine?

I would like to jump in and say that under the Clinton socialistic medicine plan it mandates universal health insurance coverage. The Cooper socialistic medicine plan, I guess I will call it, and they call it Clinton lite because it just…

That is what happens when we have a socialized type of system. Ironically, many of these countries, including, I think, Canada, are looking at the United States' system for ways to suggest to them how they might improve their own, and yet…

do we really want the Clinton health care plan? Let me quote from the conclusions of an article that appears in this month's New Republic. This article is entitled ``Are You Really Ready for the Clinton Health Care Plan?'' The Clinton bill…

as a Californian I support the need for earthquake relief. But as an American, I believe that we must provide this relief by making offsetting cuts, not by piling on further debt onto the backs of every man, woman, and child in California…

yesterday, the chairman of the House Banking Committee, in answer to the question, ``Will hearings be held on the Madison Guaranty Saving And Loan affair?'' replied, ``Yes, they will.'' That was the first good bit of news we have heard so…