[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 205 (Wednesday, December 20, 1995)]
[House]
[Pages H15211-H15212]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        FAMILY FRIENDLY CONGRESS

  (Mr. BENTSEN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BENTSEN. Mr. Speaker, welcome to the family friendly Congress. If 
you are a Federal employee, say, at NASA, tell the kids ``Sorry, no 
Christmas. Dad is out of work. Santa ain't coming. The grinch stole 
Christmas.''
  If you are a tourist visiting the Smithsonian with your kids, sorry, 
no Air and Space Museum. But what about buying a coin?
  If you are a veteran, sorry, no Veterans Administration.
  
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  Mr. Speaker, this is family unfriendly, because this House, your 
House, has failed to do its duty. You did not pass your budget in time, 
you did not pass your appropriations in time, you failed to realize how 
the Constitution works. And if all of America does not accept your 
budget, Medicare cuts, tax cuts and all, then there is no deal, no 
Christmas, sorry, kids, sorry, America.
  The Constitution does not work that way. This Congress is not working 
the way that our forefathers intended it to.

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