[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 179 (Monday, November 13, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H12138]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




            AMERICA IS PRESENTED WITH A MANUFACTURED CRISIS

  (Mr. DOGGETT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DOGGETT. Mr. Speaker, today America is presented with a 
manufactured crisis, and the inventor of this crisis, the person with 
all the rights to the patent to this crisis and all the silliness 
attendant to it, is one Speaker Newt Gingrich.
  Way back on April 3, he made very clear his determination to 
manufacture this crisis. He reiterated it on June 3, saying that he 
hardly worried whether the Government would show up. And then finally 
on September 22, he said to all that were listening then what was going 
to happen tonight, he said ``I do not care what the price is. I do not 
care if we have no Executive offices and no bonds for 30 days. Not this 
time.''
  Well, the American people do care. They want their Government working 
together to take care of the problems that we have, and they do not 
want to have to pick up the tab for this unnecessary invention, for 
unless Speaker Gingrich plans to pay personally for the cost of this 
whole mishap with the proceeds of the next couple of books that he does 
with Rupert Murdoch, it is the American taxpayer who will have to pick 
up the price for this weird invention.

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