[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 2 (Thursday, January 4, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H127]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           HOUSE OF LUNATICS

  (Mr. VOLKMER asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. VOLKMER. Mr. Speaker, back last month I made a speech on this 
floor about this being the biggest show on Earth, that Ringling 
Brothers-Barnum & Bailey did not hold a candle to this place.
  Well, it is not even a good show any more. It is a house of lunatics 
right now. You can look around. Mr. Speaker, there is not hardly 
anybody here. Yet we have got Federal employees not working, we have 
got agencies shut down, and this House is doing absolutely nothing. 
There is not anybody here.
  You talk about a place that no one should actually want to be 
connected to. And every day that I serve here under this new 
leadership, under these radical Republicans, I just think, you know, 
this is not a House of Representatives; this is a place like a zoo, and 
they do not even know how to run it. They do not know how to run a 
House.
  I would say lunacy has really taken over. And then they blame the 
President for what we are not doing here.

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