[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 205 (Wednesday, December 20, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H15213]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




    GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN DUE TO FISCAL MISMANAGEMENT BY NEW MAJORITY

  (Mrs. SCHROEDER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. SCHROEDER. Mr. Speaker, I do not think there is one American 
business or one American family that would dare run their finances the 
way the Republican leadership is running the finances of this country. 
We are now one quarter of the way, almost, into this fiscal year, and 
75 percent of the domestic budget has not passed yet; 75 percent. 
Imagine.
  What is their excuse? They do not like, or they cannot agree on 
projections as to what is going to happen 7 years from now. Hey, try 
that when they come and ask us to pay our bills, and we say I cannot 
pay my bills yet because I have not put my budget together yet because 
I have not figured out what kind of predictions are going to be 7 years 
out.
  This is all to distract people on the fact of the tremendous 
mismanagement, the fiscal mismanagement of this Government. It is an 
outrage that many people are out on the streets, that veterans may not 
get their checks, that we can go on and on and on, and this is the 
first time in history we have had two shutdowns.
  This is outrageous.

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