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Patricia Schroeder: the Republicans went off for a conference and studied to try to come up with a proposal for health care. After going to…

On the recordMarch 15, 1994
the Republicans went off for a conference and studied to try to come up with a proposal for health care. After going to their camp for the weekend, they came away and they had nothing. There was nothing they could agree on as a health care reform package. And so I think what they decided to do at that point was go and come up with a new strategy, and that was to divert America's attention from health care and engage in ``pillory Hillary.'' So that is what we have seen over and over again and over again. When you think about it, imagine what would have happened if the Clintons had made money on this real estate deal. Here is an example where we have a special prosecutor investigating it, you have a deal where they lost money, you have all sorts of other groups investigating it, and in the private sector as a private attorney dealing with many other things. What in the world is going on here? I think this country has to get health care back in focus and we have to get moving on this issue, and let us stop all the distractions and pretending like every night's news show is an extension of ``Geraldo.''
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Patricia Schroeder
Colorado

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Discussing Republican strategies to divert attention from health care reform during a speech on health care.

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