[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 6 (Wednesday, January 11, 1995)]
[House]
[Pages H183-H184]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                    IS THE HOUSE MOVING TOO QUICKLY?

  (Mr. RICHARDSON asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. RICHARDSON. Mr. Speaker, are we moving too fast without taking 
proper precautions that will be costly in the future?
  [[Page H184]] The Speaker did the right thing to fire Christina 
Jeffrey, but what is shocking is that a person with these views could 
have been hired in the first place.
  Are we moving ahead on unfunded mandates legislation without 
recognizing the impact it might have on clean air, on clean water, on 
civil rights, on disabilities, on health and safety? Am I correctly 
hearing that the new majority wants to exempt all Contract With America 
legislation in this legislation?
  As we move ahead on the balanced budget amendment, which I have 
supported, does it not make sense to specify from where these cuts are 
coming? Do we really want to amend the Constitution to have a super 
majority on taxes? What if we are in a recession? What if we are in a 
war? Let us make this balanced budget amendment work.
  Mr. Speaker, let us have open rules. Let us be offered alternatives. 
Let us participate in a bipartisan way to deal with these problems. Let 
us not make mistakes now that we will regret later.

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