[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 207 (Friday, December 22, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H15579]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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                 SHUTTING GOVERNMENT DOWN IRRESPONSIBLE

  (Mr. DOGGETT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DOGGETT. Mr. Speaker, if this afternoon our Republican colleagues 
were to pile up next to the Capitol dome 1 billion $1 bills and set 
them afire, they would have accomplished the same thing they have with 
two stunts closing down the Government: The ``cry baby'' stunt that 
closed it down in November and now another one that costs us $40 
million of taxpayer money a day for absolutely nothing, nothing more 
than burning those 1 billion $1 bills.
  But if you came to Washington hoping to see our national cemetery, 
hoping as a group from the Lockerbie victims yesterday to lay some 
flowers in Arlington Cemetery next to the victims, you would find it 
slammed shut, exactly like our veterans are going to find their checks 
slammed shut and not present when January comes around, like millions 
of children across this country will not find the money there to buy 
the food they need, because of the irresponsible act of shutting this 
Government down and making the taxpayers pay for this foolishness.
  Mr. Speaker, it is outrageous for these people to sneak away this 
afternoon instead of standing here and doing their job for the American 
people.

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