[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 200 (Friday, December 15, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H14936]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      REPUBLICANS MUST COMPROMISE

  (Mr. PALLONE asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. PALLONE. Mr. Speaker, I cannot believe that this House just 
passed a Republican-sponsored motion that allows us to go into recess 
for 3 days with the pending shutdown of the Government once again. I 
fully expected this morning, maybe naively, that I would be here to 
vote for a continuing resolution that would let the Government continue 
to operate while we worked out our differences over the budget, but 
that is not happening.
  The President said that he was willing to go ahead with what we call 
a clean continuing resolution. On the Senate side they said that they 
would agree to it. But here in the House, the gentleman from Georgia 
[Mr. Gingrich] and the Republicans say that they will not, and I do not 
think it is fair. There is tremendous cost involved to this Government 
if we shut down again this coming Monday or any days following that, 
and the President has put forward a compromise budget that allows for a 
balanced budget over 7 years. It maintains the priorities, protects 
Medicare, protects Medicaid, protects the environment and education.
  The Republicans have not done that. They made an agreement on the 
previous CR that they would try to come up with a compromise that 
protected Medicare and Medicaid and the other goals, and so far they 
have not. I think it is incumbent on them to do so.

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