[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 2 (Thursday, January 4, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H121]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




              CONGRESS SHOULD NOT BE EXEMPT FROM HARDSHIPS

  (Mr. BROWDER asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BROWDER. Mr. Speaker, I do not believe that the President and 
Members of Congress should be exempt from the same hardships that 
others endure. If we are unable to pay Federal employees, then we 
should not be able to pay ourselves during a shutdown. Like some other 
Members of this House, I have introduced legislation to prevent the 
President and Members of Congress from collecting paychecks during 
Government shutdowns, and I invite my colleagues to join me as a 
cosponsor of H.R. 2671.
  It is not right that Federal employees should be made to suffer this 
outrage alone. Maybe a pay freeze would make the President and Congress 
take the situation more seriously. Cosponsor H.R. 2671.

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