[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 204 (Tuesday, December 19, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H15096]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           LET OUR PEOPLE GO

  (Mrs. MORELLA asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mrs. MORELLA. Mr. Speaker, let our people go, let them go back to 
work.
  Yesterday, we passed a budget resolution saying we would balance the 
budget in 7 years using CBO figures. Let us do it.
  I would like to, during this third day of Hanukkah, with 6 days 
before Christmas, point out there is a face to this shutdown of 
Government, this partial shutdown. Yes, it affects 260,000 Federal 
employees and their families who are victims. Yes, it affects the 
private sector, those who have contracts. yes, it affects the financial 
market.
  But I would like you to know, as I was driving in this morning I saw 
two cars in the driveway, two doors over, people who are usually gone 
at 7 o'clock in the morning, and that is because one of them works at 
Health and Human Services and one works at Commerce. They have four 
children. They have two children who are currently in college, and they 
are hit by the facts that we have not come up with a balanced budget.
  I would also like to reflect the fact about a pharmacist at NIH, the 
human face is something we have got to realize and get on with our job.

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