[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 1 (Wednesday, January 3, 1996)]
[House]
[Pages H53-H54]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




               TRAGIC EFFECTS OF THE GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN

  (Mr. DURBIN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DURBIN. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Virginia [Mr. 
Moran].
  Mr. MORAN. I thank my friend, the gentleman from Illinois, for 
yielding.
  Mr. Speaker, the Committee on Rules of this House reported out a 
resolution that will come to the floor tomorrow that would have this 
Congress go on recess until January 23 while the Government is shut 
down, Federal employees are locked out of their jobs, the American 
public is locked out of their Government. We have done this before.
  I would urge this body not to do it again. This will haunt us for the 
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our careers. We cannot go home without doing our jobs.
  If we recess, it means that 760,000 Federal employees will not get 
paid at all for the next paycheck. They will not be able to make their 
rent. They will not make their mortgage. They will not be able to make 
their car payments. They will not even be able to put food, many of 
them, on the table for their children.
  Do not do this to the career civil servants who support this 
Government. We are all in this together. All of the American people 
have an interest in the Government running efficiently and effectively 
and fairly.

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