[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 1 (Wednesday, January 3, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H52]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                            A GREAT TRAGEDY

  (Mr. FORBES asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. FORBES. Mr. Speaker, there is a great tragedy going on here. Our 
friends on the other side have pontificated at great length today, but 
they have had several opportunities to put several hundred thousand 
Federal workers back to work and they have refused the opportunity.
  It is unfortunate that these opportunities have gone by the wayside, 
while we stand here as Americans hoping that we can get to the 7-year 
balanced budget that on November 20 was promised to not just this 
Congress but to all of America. When the polling numbers dipped 
overnight, that is when we saw the 7-year balanced budget agreement on 
November 20.
  Unfortunately it will not be until the polling numbers, the tracking 
numbers over at the executive branch drop overnight that we will see a 
balanced budget agreement. It is unfortunate, and I regret the turn of 
events, and I hope that sanity will be restored in Washington.

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