[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 2 (Thursday, January 4, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H125]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      HOW TO REOPEN THE GOVERNMENT

  (Mr. MANZULLO asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MANZULLO. Mr. Speaker, the House just voted a few minutes ago to 
override the President's veto of the Interior appropriations bill.
  Whenever the President vetoes a bill, that mean he does not like it. 
But when the President vetoed the Interior appropriations bill, that 
meant that 130,000 Federal employees could have been working, 369 
national parks would have been open, 500 national wildlife refuges 
would have been open, 155 national forests would have been open.
  Let us get candid about this. Whenever the President vetoes a bill, 
he shuts down the Government. If the President is complaining about the 
Government being shut down, all he has to do is to sign the 
appropriations bill. That is what this process is about.
  So, if you want the Government to be open, all the President has to 
do is to sign the bills, the appropriations bills that Congress has 
sent to him. It is that simple.

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