Bob Dole: “on the op-ed pages of last Sunday's Washington Post, our colleague from New Mexico, Senator Pete Domenici, turned the…”

“on the op-ed pages of last Sunday's Washington Post, our colleague from New Mexico, Senator Pete Domenici, turned the spotlight on the important principle of truth-in-budgeting as it relates to the Clinton health care plan. In my view, this opinion piece by the ranking Republican member on the Senate Budget Committee is a valuable addition to the upcoming debates over health care and the budget, and I ask unanimous consent that Senator Domenici's op-ed from the January 30, 1994 edition of the Washington Post be included in the Record. There being no objection, the article was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows: [From the Washington Post, Jan. 30, 1994] The Big Budget Lie--How Can the Administration Leave the Health Care Plan Off the Budget? (By Pete V. Domenici) On Feb. 7, President Clinton is scheduled to submit his first real budget. What is in that budget will be, in one important way, less interesting than what is left out: the full budget impact of the president's sweeping proposals for reforming the country's health care system. How the health care plan is reflected in the federal budget is more than an academic question. The administration's insistence that the plan's mandated premiums and benefits not be displayed as federal taxes and spending is ample testimony to the large political and practical consequences.…”