[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 101 (Tuesday, June 20, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H6093]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                      STAND UP FOR WORKING PEOPLE

  (Ms. JACKSON-LEE asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. JACKSON-LEE. Mr. Speaker, the morning talk shows were having a 
great time, for they were talking about how the Congress was getting 
ready as a legislative body of the United States of America to do our 
own budget. As we address the appropriations for this Congress, there 
is a lot of smoke and mirrors, and I have come to stand on behalf of 
the working people.
  What are we doing with this appropriation? We are cutting out jobs 
for working people, the folding room, hard-working citizens who have 
been working for many, many years, dedicated and loyal, providing mail 
service to this House--they will lose their jobs. The Printing Office, 
skilled craftsmen who have been working and contributing to this House, 
they, too, it seems will lose their jobs. And then the citizens who 
come to work here, they may be driving a 1967 Chevrolet, but they are 
coming to the Congress to work. What do we do? We cut out their parking 
lot just so a few extra dollars can go somewhere else.
  Mr. Speaker, if we are going to do real appropriating and let us be 
real fair, do not cut valuable services and real jobs for working 
Americans who work in lower level positions. Let us stand on the side 
of Americans who work, the citizens who come to work every day in the 
folding room, the Printing Office, and, yes, those individuals who 
drive far to come to work for the citizens of the United States of 
America who need just a simple unfancy parking lot to park in.
  Smoke and mirrors, that is this appropriation. Vote ``no'' on this 
congressional budget appropriation process. There are no real cuts only 
smoke and mirrors--vote to save jobs.

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