[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 1 (Wednesday, January 3, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H11]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                            ENOUGH IS ENOUGH

  (Mr. CARDIN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. CARDIN. Mr. Speaker, yesterday, I had the opportunity to meet 
with some of my Federal workers from the Social Security Administration 
and see firsthand the hardships that we have caused because of our 
failure to get our work done. They are not interested in excuses.
  Enough is enough, as the leader of the other body said when 
legislation was passed to put our Federal workers back to work. It is 
now time for us to do the same. For 3 weeks, hundreds of thousands of 
American families have been held hostage to budget strategy. Some are 
at work without pay. Some are home not working without pay. Through all 
of this, millions of Americans have been denied services from their 
Government.
  The American people do not understand this and neither do I. We have 
all agreed that we are going to pay for Federal workers, yet we are 
denying people basic services which are going to cost our taxpayers 
more money. It does not make sense. Enough is enough. Let us get our 
job done.

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