John Spratt: “Mr. Chairman, read this substitute. Coburn huffs and puffs for three long pages, and then, and then it blows out of…”

“Mr. Chairman, read this substitute. Coburn huffs and puffs for three long pages, and then, and then it blows out of steam. It does not even decree a report. In a long convoluted sentence, what it does is say it is the policy of the United States to encourage the industry to establish a fund to explore the problem further. This would be laughable if it were not so serious. What this is, this Coburn substitute, is another in a long line of red herrings. It is another attempt to derail and sidetrack a solution to this problem. We have a solution before us, but we will not have an opportunity to vote upon it unless we defeat Coburn first, because Coburn is a substitute and everyone should understand it. It, too, is a V-chip which will block our opportunity to have an opportunity to vote upon the V-chip amendment that many Members of this House on both sides of the aisle support and parents in this country desperately want.”