[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]




                  TAXPAYER RESOURCES BEING SQUANDERED

  (Mr. POMEROY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. POMEROY. Mr. Speaker, this morning's front page of the Washington 
Post quotes the Senate majority leader with a very succinct comment, 
one which finds broad agreement all across the State of North Dakota. 
It says, ``People should work for their money.''
  Yet the House of Representatives, the majority specifically in the 
House of Representatives, has created a situation today where thousands 
and thousands of Federal workers are prohibited from coming to their 
place of employment and discharging their services to the American 
people. Yet they have been assured by the same majority that shuts them 
out from their desks that they will now be compensated for this time.
  Now, what could be more ridiculous than that? Not letting them come 
to work but paying them for staying at home, what is the point? The 
point is an awful lot of people are being hurt, the taxpayers' 
resources are being shamelessly squandered.
  The Senate Republicans and Senate Democrats alike have voted to put 
this Government back to work, and it is time the House go along.

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