[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 15 (Wednesday, January 25, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H597]
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                          FEEL GOOD RESOLUTION

  (Mr. VOLKMER asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. VOLKMER. Mr. Speaker, it is interesting, when I reviewed this 
morning House Resolution 44 brought up by the Rules Committee, that I 
find that the first order of business is not a balanced budget 
amendment but it is really a fraud on the House of Representatives and 
the American people, which is known as House Concurrent Resolution 17. 
It is a feel gooder. It does not have any effect. It is not even ever 
going to be signed into law. It is supposedly going to tell the people, 
our senior citizens who receive Social Security, that they are not 
going to be touched. Well, folks, that is not the effect of a 
concurrent resolution. That basically is a fraud.
  The other thing I find in this rule, this is very interesting, is 
that the other body, the Republican Party, the majority have now 
admitted that the House Committee on the Judiciary did not follow the 
rules when they marked up the budget resolution for a balanced budget. 
Right in here it says, ``Points of order against consideration of the 
joint resolution for failure to comply with clause 2(g)(3) of rule XI 
are waived.''
  That is an admission, that is an admission that the Committee on the 
Judiciary did not follow the rules of the House when they marked up the 
balanced budget amendment.
  Why should we waive that rule? Why should we say that the Committee 
on the Judiciary does not have to follow the rules of the House?


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