[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 12 (Friday, January 20, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H415]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


              CONGRESS MUST STOP QUIBBLING AND GET TO WORK

  (Mrs. SMITH of Washington asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. SMITH of Washington. Mr. Speaker, I think what we are seeing 
here today is majoring in minors. The American people want to hear 
about the business of this House. They want to hear about the promises 
we kept, or are keeping, that we have made. They are tired of 
quibbling.
  I went home for a few days and found that they go, ``why are you guys 
fighting? Why aren't you working?'' I want to tell the Members, the 
bill before us today, the most important bill, is unfunded mandates. 
That bill needs to be passed. We need to get to it.
  The simple fact is the Safe Drinking Water act is costing one of my 
little towns nearly $2 million, and their water already tests clean. 
Their total budget is less than $3 million. That is what they care 
about. They are sick and tired of ignoring what is important. That is 
getting about the people's business, not listening to book deals.
  Let us get to work and stop quibbling. They are starting to ask if we 
are children, and really, I do not think we are.

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