[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]




                BIPARTISANSHIP NEEDED TO RESOLVE IMPASSE

  (Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, I would like to take up the 
call of the gentleman from South Carolina. I think it is time for us to 
work in a bipartisan manner, and I have offered House Joint Resolution 
155 that would open this Government by a continuing resolution, provide 
our employees that are furloughed an opportunity to come back to work 
and provide the services to the American people, and as well to pay the 
Government and to operate the Government at 90 percent funding.
  I am very proud to say that I have been joined by Members Gene Green, 
Al Wynn, James Clyburn, Bennie Thompson, Patsy Mink, Eva Clayton, Tom 
Foglietta, Louise Slaughter, Earl Hilliard, Cleo Fields, Donald Payne, 
Xavier Becerra, Corrine Brown, Rosa DeLauro, Jim Moran, Alcee Hastings, 
Joe Kennedy, John Lewis, Patrick Kennedy, Sanford Bishop, Lucille 
Roybal-Allard, Tom Barrett, Harold Volkmer, and Pat Schroeder. We are 
all concerned that we work in a bipartisan manner to do what the 
American people have sent us here to do, to have this Government 
operating and, yes, work to balance the budget with the priorities that 
will benefit all of us who are Americans. I hope my colleagues will 
allow this to come to the floor today.

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