[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 106 (Tuesday, June 27, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H6318]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


        CALIFORNIA TIMBER WORKERS WANT A HAND UP, NOT A HANDOUT

  (Mr. RIGGS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. RIGGS. Mr. Speaker, I might point out to the gentlewoman that the 
Republican family tax credit will completely remove or eliminate the 
tax liability for 4.7 million working poor families.
  Mr. Speaker, 3 weeks ago, Bill Clinton told thousands of timber 
workers they could not go back to work in productive highwage private 
sector jobs when he vetoed the timber salvage amendment. This veto, his 
first, triggered a protest back here in Washington, DC, by mill workers 
and loggers and their family members in a stormy headlined loggers 
protest in the District of Columbia.
  Today, the President is announcing extra unemployment grants and some 
loans for our area, northwest California. Well, we are glad that the 
administration has not forgotten about us completely, but do not insult 
the hard working people in northern California with your charity at 
taxpayer expense, when you personally vetoed the bill that would have 
put thousands of California loggers back to work.
  The fact that he would provide us welfare style assistance, but will 
not let loggers go back to work, tells us a lot with the President. 
There is just one problem: California timber workers want a hand up, 
not a handout.

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