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Jennifer Dunn: “Mr. Speaker, here is a message for the gentleman from California [Mr. Stark]: This is the 1990's, not the 1950's. That…”

On the recordMarch 17, 1994
Mr. Speaker, here is a message for the gentleman from California [Mr. Stark]: This is the 1990's, not the 1950's. That sort of attitude went out with hula hoops, bobby sox, and Sandra Dee movies. You have to wonder about the peculiar attitude of the gentleman from California [Mr. Stark] toward women. Mr. Speaker, is his thinking so grounded in the past that he cannot adapt to the present? Is that the reason he supports a Government-run medicine scheme that history has already proved to be unworkable? Mr. Speaker, in any event, Chairman Stark owes the gentlewoman from Connecticut [Mrs. Johnson] and all the women of the House an apology. Let us keep the health care debate where it should be--on the floor of the Congress.
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Jennifer Dunn
Washington

Editor's note · Context

Addressing comments made by Mr. Stark regarding Mrs. Johnson's expertise in health care.

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