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which threatened to delay adjournment, the bill was passed in the middle of the night.
“It was impossible," he said, “in the short time between printing and passage ... for any one member to know what was in it.”
He voiced conditional approval for the deficit reduction compromise reached last year, notiijg-thSTit provided for anjidditionalSlO billion in savirjgs'^Gtfer the $22 billion mandated by the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings automatic reductions. “That’s good — the problems is that some estimates of savings may be optimistic — some revenue projections may be optimistic.” Those, he said, include such items as the sale of government assets, where the actual revenues realized may not reach the estimate.
He called that “a cause for some concern,” but “I hope that does not turn out to be correct.”
Health care bill still short
He said that he foresees progress on some type of national health insurance, with catastrophic illness
(See SLAUGHTER, p. 4)
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