Newt Gingrich: “Let me say that I am delighted that finally we can now get to what I believe the Democratic side agreed to defend, which…”

“Let me say that I am delighted that finally we can now get to what I believe the Democratic side agreed to defend, which is the bill introduced by Mr. Gephardt for himself and a host of others in the title H.R. 3600 which I think was the topic of the debate, not what Mr. Stark decided to replace the bill with, because he did not like this one, not with what Mr. Waxman will later on replace the bill with, not the various versions that Ms. DeLauro decided to have but, rather, the bill you were supposed to be defending, H.R. 3600. I want to go back to the topic of mammograms for a second, because my good friend, who is a very modern and wise person, knows that we are in the middle of a biological revolution. He knows that there is genetic research. He knows that there are many things going on. Do you really think it makes sense, from page 40 to page 47, to write into law which tetanus shots, which inspections, which mammograms at which age, to have the Congress of the United States writing into law with the cumbersome, slow, politicized procedures we have, to lock into law these kinds of situations, and in the Clinton bill, which you are defending, to block mammograms for women who are, I believe, under 45.”