[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]




               PRESIDENT SHOULD SIGN APPROPRIATIONS BILLS

  (Mr. YOUNG of Alaska asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. YOUNG of Alaska. Mr. Speaker, you have just seen the House uphold 
the President's veto, and may I say that the minority side again has 
shut down the parks, the refuges, the monuments. It is the President 
who has not acted appropriately.
  This is a body of two Houses and conferences, and we reached the 
right decision. We sent the bill to the President. He alone has shut 
down the parks. He alone has shut down the monuments. He alone is 
causing the pain, and it is time for the American public to say, Mr. 
President, sign the bills that Congress sends to you.
  For those of you on the minority side, you are no longer in the 
majority, you are in the minority. So let us tell the truth. Let us 
have the President sign these bills. We will send them to him.
  Mr. President, let us put the people back to work. It is your fault; 
it will continue to be your fault. Let us think about this country 
instead of the election in 1996.

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