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JOHN LINDER: “as we have just learned in the last hour or so, and the chairman has just learned it here, someone somewhere slipped…”

On the recordJuly 9, 2003
as we have just learned in the last hour or so, and the chairman has just learned it here, someone somewhere slipped language into the leg branch bill that expands dental and vision health insurance benefits for Members and employees of the House. And I agree with the gentleman from Wisconsin. A fair and open discussion of expansion of these benefits for everyone is a legitimate course for this House to take and vote up or down, but to hide it in a bill and slide it in is simply inappropriate. This language is eliminating language on the leg branch bill, and it says that none of the funds in this act may be used to provide that expansion of dental or vision benefits. It puts a limitation on those benefits where they are correct right now in the current form.
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JOHN LINDER
Georgia
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Addressing the inclusion of expanded dental and vision benefits in the legislative branch bill.

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