Greg Ganske

What I want to say is this: I agree with you. This should not be an issue decided on what is the best thing for my party, okay? I do not make that kind of decision when I look at this legislation. I think about what is best for the…

there are many proposals out there for campaign finance reform. One of the more interesting ones I have recently seen was a proposal that would prevent incumbents from transferring funds from one Federal campaign to another, i.e., let us…

even if there is not wrongdoing, then there is certainly the appearance of wrongdoing. Let me give the gentleman an example. One of the largest contributors to the Democratic National Committee was the chairman of Loral. Now, Loral needed…

in my remaining time I want to speak a little bit about patient protection legislation. We have been working on this issue for 5 years now. Back in 1995 when I first came to Congress, reports came out about how HMOs were writing contracts…

I had not planned on talking that much about taxes today, but we will have a tax bill come up on the floor tomorrow, so in light of the last hour's discussion on taxes, I might as well give my opinion on this issue. Mr. Speaker, prior to…

This weekend in Parade Magazine, February 6, 2000, on page 15, there is a cartoon. I do not have it blown up like I have made charts of many cartoons in the past as I have spoken here on patient protection legislation, so let me describe…

Mr. Speaker, between 1882 and 1968, thousands of black men and women and children were hanged, burned, shot or tortured to death by mobs in the United States. Of those crimes, only a handful ever went to a grand jury. In New York City at…

I have always believed that any entity, whether a doctor, a health plan or a business, that makes decisions on medical necessity must be held responsible for those decisions. Moreover, I find it reprehensible that there are those who would…

in August I went on a surgical mission to Armenia. Our surgical mission was treated with great hospitality by our hosts and we were able to join with Armenian doctors and do teaching and help take care of patients. So it was with shock…

Well, Mr. Speaker, one can negotiate with the PLO. Mr. Speaker, I am going to use the balance of the time to discuss managed care reform legislation that we are going to be debating here on the floor next week. I appreciate the Majority…

we are about 1 week from having at least 1 day of debate here on the floor of the House of Representatives on managed care reform and, hopefully, we will pass the bipartisan consensus patient protection bill of 1999. There has been a lot…

I rise in support of truth in advertising, in support of Shays-Meehan and in opposition to this amendment in the nature of a substitute. This substitute does not address a fundamental problem, and that is sham issue ads. The Hutchinson…

I rise in opposition to these amendments, to the two Whitfield amendments, and in support of Shays-Meehan. With due respect to the gentleman from Kentucky (Mr. Whitfield), I do not think we need to add more money to the system. In 1996, I…

this amendment seeks to triple the aggregate contribution or limit to $75,000. I mean, how many contributors in this country give $75,000? The average House race today costs probably about $700,000. I can guarantee my colleagues that if…

I want to clear up an area of misunderstanding that some of my colleagues have, as well as some of the business community has concerning the bipartisan managed care bill. I recently had a CEO of a major corporation from the Midwest and his…

I welcome back all my colleagues from across the country, both sides of the aisle. Congress has a lot of work to do in the last couple months of this year. Part of that work that many of us would like to see completed, at least in the…

I wish to speak for the remainder of this evening about managed care reform. One of these days we are going to pass this, and my friend from New Jersey and I will maybe have to stop passing like ships in the middle of the night, coming to…

Mr. Speaker, I think there has been a lot of miscommunication, misunderstanding about the medical privacy provisions that we passed here in the House. I will just briefly go over those. Those medical privacy provisions would not preempt…

I point out that the language on medical privacy says the insurance company shall maintain a practice of protecting the confidentiality of individually identifiable consumer health and medical and genetic information and may disclose such…

as Members on both sides of the aisle know, I have stood on this floor night after night talking about abuses in the HMO industry and insurance, and I do that not to bash the insurance industry but to try to protect patients. There is a…

Richard Cardwell from Des Moines, Iowa, is a hero. Richard, a retired plumber, is a wiry, muscular man from a lifetime of tugging on stubborn pipes. In his work he has been bitten many times by animals but he did not hesitate when he saw a…

tomorrow on the other side of the Capitol, in the Senate, debate begins on managed care reform legislation. I would like to take my colleagues back to May 30, 1996, when a small, nervous woman testified before the House Committee on…

my vote on the impeachment of President Clinton will be the most important of my public service. The proposed impeachment of a president has occurred only twice before in our nation's history and I consider this of gravest Constitutional…

we have not always agreed on certain policies. I can think of a health care issue that we disagreed on. But I certainly do not think it is fair for the Speaker of the House to be accused of perjury in this debate today. I think that I have…

For a President to be effective, he must be trusted to tell the truth. I believe that the President should now do the honorable thing and resign.