[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 181 (Wednesday, November 15, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H12356]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN

  (Ms. McKINNEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. McKINNEY. Mr. Speaker, since April of this year, Speaker Gingrich 
has threatened that he would close down the Government in order to pass 
his extremist agenda. Well, yesterday, Speaker Gingrich got his wish--
the Government closed down.
  All this because the GOP is in a mad rush to make their gargantuan 
cuts to Medicare, the environment, and education, so they can help pay 
for $245 billion in tax breaks.
  Mr. Speaker, the American people yearn for Medicare reforms worthy of 
the mainstream and not the GOP extreme. Clearly, extremist GOP policies 
have only one purpose in mind, and that is to reward those who finance 
the Republican Party at the expense of those who don't make campaign 
contributions.
  Don't try to blame the President, pass the appropriations bills.

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