[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 2 (Thursday, January 4, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H162]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




             PRESIDENT RESPONSIBLE FOR GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a previous order of the House, the 
gentleman from Pennsylvania [Mr. Fox] is recognized for 5 minutes.
  Mr. FOX of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the opportunity to 
address my colleagues tonight on some important issues. First, I would 
want to take a moment if I could in looking at the perspective of where 
we are today.
  Mr. Speaker, we have to remember on November 20 the President of the 
United States signed into law legislation which said that he, along 
with Congress, would in fact balance the budget. Unfortunately, as part 
of that law, he said that he would in fact do this by the end of the 
year. Of course, now we are into the new year; the budget has not been 
balanced.
  The President of the United States said during his campaign three 
major things: I want to change welfare as we know it; I want to balance 
the budget; and I want tax reform for the middle class.
  This House, in a bipartisan fashion, has passed such legislation. It 
is the President, not the Congress, that has forced the furlough of 
workers. In fact, the President has in fact not signed into law 
appropriation bills, 13 of which he received from the House; and when 
the balanced budget came up, it passed by 351 to 40. The President's 
budget, which did not balance and in fact was $265 billion out of 
budget, in fact that was defeated by a bipartisan 425 to 0.

  So I say to the President, we certainly want to have a balanced 
budget and also to have the workers go back, and we will work with you 
to make that accomplished in a bipartisan fashion, as this Congress has 
worked all year.


          tribute to clare lindgren wofford, a great american

  Mr. Speaker, at this time, I want to take a moment for a special 
person in my district, Clare Lindgren Wofford, who was the wife of our 
former U.S. Senator, Harris Wofford, from Pennsylvania. Her untimely 
death occurred today.
  She was a great American, a loving wife to former Senator Harris 
Wofford, dedicated to her husband and family. She was a leader in 
college education, not only in Pennsylvania but across the country; an 
outstanding intellect, a noted author. Clare Lindgren Wofford was 
assistant to the president for development at the American College in 
Bryn Mawr, PA; Director for the Centennial Campaign at Bryn Mawr 
College. She worked with her husband in partnership for education, to 
make sure our country was stronger and higher education was supported.
  She was also Director of the Katherine Gibbs School in Philadelphia, 
and Director of International Seminars at the University of 
Pennsylvania, working in seminars for business executives, where 
programs involved the Japanese economy, the Chinese economy, and 
American business. Moreover, she was reaching out to students in 
internship programs and business.
  Clare Lindgren Wofford was as well a former director of the 
Washington Council of the African-American Institute and previously a 
political analyst with the U.S. Department of State, and a national 
champion in original oratory and debate.
  She is someone who has also been vice president of the Philadelphia 
Area Committee for UNICEF, on the board of directors on the World 
Affairs Council in Philadelphia, and a member of the board of trustees 
of Temple University in Philadelphia.
  Today, we in Pennsylvania and in my district mourn Clare Lindgren 
Wofford as someone who is a leader in higher education and, along with 
the American College, the Bryn Mawr College and the residents of our 
district and in Pennsylvania generally, we mourn the loss of a great 
friend.
  The most fitting tribute, Mr. Speaker, I think to the life of Clare 
Lindgren Wofford would be to continue to support higher education and 
the programs she supported, and that would be a fitting living memorial 
for what contributions she has made to the country.

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