[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 2 (Thursday, January 4, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H122]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




               ACCEPTING RESPONSIBILITY IN BUDGET BATTLE

  (Mrs. CLAYTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. CLAYTON. Mr. Speaker, both Democrats and Republicans on the 
Senate side were responsible in enacting a clean CR to put the 
Government back to work again. We have now been in a Government 
shutdown for some 20 days which is costing this Government at least $20 
million each day. Twenty days of that, we just need to multiply that.
  But, more importantly, it is costing the taxpayer their services that 
they deserve. Our country deserves better. Yet there are those on the 
other side, under the rubric of being responsible to their 
grandchildren and to the children, the innocent, and denying children 
of today opportunities.
  How responsible is it for us to say that we should deny the 
opportunity and the responsibility for people to productively give back 
to their country what they will be paid? How responsible is it for us 
to pay people who are not actually working? It certainly is not 
responsible, nor is it civil, to deny the responsibility of us as 
Members of this Congress.

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