[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 200 (Friday, December 15, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H14932]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      SHUTDOWN LOOMS FOR DISTRICT

  (Ms. NORTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. NORTON. Mr. Speaker, this is the last day of my countdown to 
shutdown. This is it. This is the day. I hope that this headline is as 
false as the one that said that Dewey had won the election: ``Midnight 
Likely to Bring New Shutdown.''
  We are close enough so that a shutdown ought to be off the table, Mr. 
Speaker. The GOP asked for a 7-year plan. The President put a 7-year 
plan on the table. Americans now want us to work on the details--grunt 
work, not shut down of their services.
  It is unthinkable, of course, that there would be no Christmas CR for 
Federal employees and for those who depend upon their services. But a 
CR would leave the District of Columbia running on empty. The way to 
kill an ailing city is to dole out its own money on a 2-day or a weekly 
or a quarterly basis. We do not want to finish off DC. We want to 
revive the Nation's Capital.
  Bring our bill to the floor: Bipartisan; unanimously passed in the 
subcommittee and the full committee that would allow the Nation's 
Capital to spend its own money.

  Fair is fair. Help the Nation's Capital. Do not kick it while it is 
down.

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