[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 71 (Tuesday, May 2, 1995)]
[House]
[Pages H4447-H4448]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                  SUPPORT FOR FEDERAL EMPLOYEES NEEDED

  (Ms. RIVERS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. RIVERS. Mr. Speaker, one cannot read a newspaper these days 
without understanding that there is a supposed war between the 
Government and the people. But who is the Government? These days we 
often hear attacks on Federal employees around their benefits, around 
their pay, as if they do not have mortgages to pay, as if they do not 
have to feed and clothe children, as if they do not pay taxes like 
other workers in this country.
  It is suggested they are nameless, faceless bureaucrats, not the 
people who fight our drug wars, not the people who care for sick 
veterans, not the people who make sure our food and water is safe. 
These are real people, and the 
[[Page H4448]] tragedy in Oklahoma showed us so very well that these 
people bleed real blood, they cry real tears, and they lose real lives.
  To paraphrase a familiar saying, we have met the government, and it 
is us.

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