[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 180 (Tuesday, November 14, 1995)]
[House]
[Pages H12205-H12206]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      STOP PLAYING THE BLAME GAME

  (Mr. LEWIS of Georgia asked and was given permission to address the 
House 

[[Page H 12206]]
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LEWIS of Georgia. Madam Speaker, the day you have longed for is 
here. You have brought the U.S. Government to a halt and the verge of 
default. I hope you are happy.
  And why has it come to this. Why are our national parks closed, why 
can't senior citizens or veterans apply for Social Security or veteran 
benefits, why can not people get their passports? Because you have not 
done your work. You have been so busy pursuing your extremist 
ideological agenda that you have ignored the business of the people. 
And now you want to blame the President.
  Well, the President is right and the American people agree. The 
President will not give in to your drastic proposals: Your extremist 
plans to cut Medicare, destroy our environment, defund education and 
give tax breaks to the rich while raising taxes on working families.
  Stop playing the blame game, Madam Speaker. Stop blackmailing the 
President. Show some leadership. Send the President a clean bill and he 
will sign it, and let us get on with the business of governing.
  The American people are watching and waiting.

                          ____________________