[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 206 (Thursday, December 21, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H15488]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         LET US FIND CHRISTMAS

  (Mrs. CLAYTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. CLAYTON. Mr. Speaker, it is easy to be hard. It is hard to be 
both caring and responsible.
  Some of our colleagues on the other side of the aisle, not all, but 
some of our colleagues on the other side of the aisle are determined to 
demonstrate to all America how hard they can be, my way or no way. 
Scrooge was hard.
  The Christmas season, however, challenges us to care, to consider 
others, to reach out to our human beings, to embrace them. To share, to 
be caring can be hard.
  The fatal plane crash over the mountains of Colombia and the near 
fatal plane crash on the runway of New York reminds us how all of our 
lives are uncontrollable, how the perils of our lives, we do not 
control that. We have many natural problems. We need not create more.
  The stalled budget problem is one we created. We created that. This 
Congress and the President can bridge that gap between Medicare and 
Medicaid and the CBO numbers. Those are problems we created. They are 
easy.
  I say to my Republican freshmen and others, be determined not to be 
hard.
  Guess what, even Scrooge found Christmas. Please find Christmas.

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