[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 1 (Wednesday, January 3, 1996)]
[House]
[Pages H52-H53]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      WANTED: 20 GOOD REPUBLICANS

  (Mr. MILLER of California asked and was given permission to address 
the 

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House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MILLER of California. Mr. Speaker, earlier today we had an 
opportunity to open the Government in its entirety and put people back 
to work and to make sure that the taxpayers were getting the services 
for which they are paying. That opportunity was denied us when the 
Chair failed to recognize the privileged resolution of the minority 
leader of the House of Representatives.
  That opportunity continues to be denied us because 20 Republicans 
cannot find their way to come forward and vote to open the Government. 
One hundred ninety-eight Democrats are prepared to vote. What we need 
are 20 good Republicans who put the interests of this Nation ahead of 
the interests of partisan politics, just 20 good Republicans out of the 
entire Republican caucus to come forward and let us open up this 
Government, and the negotiations at the White House can continue.
  Everybody who is a party to those negotiations seems to believe one 
another is negotiating in good faith. There is no reason to hold the 
Government of the United States hostage, to hold small business 
hostage, to hold veterans hostage, and to hold other segments of this 
Government and its population hostage.

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