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




                   ANOTHER VOTE AGAINST HOUSE RECESS

  (Mr. WYNN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WYNN. Mr. Speaker, I too want to join the chorus of folks 
objecting to the idea that we might, and it is inconceivable, but that 
we might actually recess tomorrow to January 23. We have got the 
people's business to do.
  Somehow folks on the other side of the aisle think that these are the 
President's employees or they think that they are the Democrats' 
employees, but the fact remains that they are the taxpayers' employees 
and they ought to be allowed to do the taxpayers' business. We have 
lost a lot throughout this process, a lot of services, a lot of 
productivity, a lot of employee loyalty, and we ought to try to recover 
that by putting these people back to work as soon as possible.
  We do not have a deal right now. We should stay here and continue 
working toward a deal. There are folks on this side of the aisle that 
are willing to accept a 7-year balanced budget. All we are saying is 
let us keep working to get people back to work.
  It is not just Federal employees. We have contract employees, 
thousands of contract employees, and at the end of the day they are not 
going to be paid unless we change the rules of the game. They are out 
of actual cash dollars to feed their families. We have imposed a lot of 
pain. It is time to sit down and address the problem.

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