[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 204 (Tuesday, December 19, 1995)]
[House]
[Pages H15096-H15097]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    BRING UP A CONTINUING RESOLUTION

  (Mr. PALLONE asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PALLONE. Mr. Speaker, I am a little weighted down today, as you 
can see, but I just wanted to point out that, and this is following up 
on what the gentlewoman from Maryland just said, that the reason that 
the Federal Government is shut down today is because the Republican 
majority has not brought up a continuing resolution to let the 
Government continue to operate.
  On Friday they did not bring one up. Yesterday they did not bring one 
up. Today again I have heard no talk of bringing it up.
  I think it is simply not fair to keep the Government shut down while 
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will discuss the budget. We should simply negotiate the budget. We have 
our differences, and they can be brought out and they can be 
negotiated. But in the interim, the Republican majority has an 
obligation to bring a continuing resolution to the floor and let the 
Government continue to operate, and I know that Frank also believes in 
that and so does Rose Marie.

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