[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 180 (Tuesday, November 14, 1995)]
[House]
[Pages H12203-H12204]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




               FEDERAL EMPLOYEES TO RECEIVE PAID VACATION

  (Mr. DOGGETT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. DOGGETT. Well, the Democrats are tax-and-spend and the 
Republicans can run Government on the cheap because they are not really 
for all these Government employees.
  How, Madam Speaker, do they propose to do it this week? Well, they 
are going to give 800,000 Federal employees a paid vacation. Yes, that 
is right. Today and until they resolve this crisis and get back to the 
reality of America, they are going to pay 800,000 Federal employees to 
do absolutely nothing.
  That is the kind of good business sense they have brought to this 
Government, when they could not pass the appropriations bills because 
of all their squabbles between the far right and the not-so-right in 
the Republican Party.
  Who is going to pay for this nonsense? The American taxpayer. They 
are not going to save one dime this 

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week. They are going to be paying Federal employees to do absolutely 
nothing in order to accomplish their radical right agenda to cut 
Medicare and raise the premiums on every senior, on every person with 
disabilities come January 1.
  It is wrong to ask American taxpayers to pay our Federal employees to 
do absolutely nothing just to satisfy this agenda of power of Newt 
Gingrich.

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