[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 206 (Thursday, December 21, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H15490]
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                        NO WAY TO RUN A BUSINESS

  (Mr. BARRETT of Wisconsin asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BARRETT of Wisconsin. Mr. Speaker, the Republicans claim they are 
going to run our Government like a business. Well, Mr. Speaker, I am 
still looking for one, just one business in this entire country, that 
would run itself like the Republicans are running this Government.
  Think about it. They are so mad that they are not getting their own 
way that they are sending home 280,000 employees, with pay. That is 
right, they are sending them home with pay.
  There is not a single business in this country that would do that if 
they were using their own money. Nobody in their right mind would do 
that using their own money. But they are using taxpayer money to do 
that. It is wrong. Those people should come back to work.
  It reminds me of a kid in the neighborhood I grew up in. He was so 
mad he would pinch himself. He would say, ``I am going to keep pinching 
myself,'' and the rest of us would look at him in complete amazement, 
because he was only hurting himself.
  The sad joke here is the Republicans are only hurting the taxpayers.

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