[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 181 (Wednesday, November 15, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H12352]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   GINGRICH-DOLE GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN

  (Mr. DURBIN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DURBIN. Mr. Speaker, this is day two of the Gingrich-Dole 
Government shutdown. The next time Speaker Gingrich stands in front of 
the TV cameras, I hope the press will ask him a few questions.
  Speaker Gingrich, if your Government shutdown sent 800,000 Federal 
employees home without pay, why do you keep drawing your congressional 
paycheck?
  Speaker Gingrich, if your Government shutdown stops checks for the 
widows of American veterans, why should your congressional paycheck 
keep coming?
  If we turned off the TV cameras and the machine printing 
congressional paychecks, this Gingrich gridlock would end in 5 minutes.
  Tomorrow, in the Subcommittee on District of Columbia of the 
Committee on Appropriations, my congressional colleagues will have an 
opportunity to vote on my proposal: No budget, no pay. It stops 
congressional paychecks when there is a Government shutdown or a 
default on the national debt. Mr. Gingrich should put his paycheck on 
the line, not everybody else's.

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