[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 2 (Thursday, January 4, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H123]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           LET YOUR PEOPLE GO

  (Mr. FARR asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. FARR. Mr. Speaker, I rise as a Member from the delegation of the 
great State of California. This is the State that is proud to lead this 
Nation in environmental, educational, and economic policy.
  Unfortunately, it is also the State that showed that a legislative 
branch of government can bring Government to a halt by not adopting a 
budget on time. California's partisan politics delay the State budget 
year after year. However, never was it this bad.
  Congress is now in its fourth month. We have been here more days, 
taken more votes, and spent more hours on the floor and accomplished 
less than any other Congress in history. Congress was unable to make 
the October 1 fiscal deadline. It is internationally embarrassing.
  Mr. Speaker, give us back our Nation. Let your people go. Vote for a 
clean CR and get Government back to work.

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