[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 2 (Thursday, January 4, 1996)]
[House]
[Pages H93-H94]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN

  (Mr. SCHUMER asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SCHUMER. Mr. Speaker, this is day 20 of the Government shutdown 
and it is beginning to bite. Not simply Federal employees but small 
business people who cannot get export licenses, other business people 
who want permits so they can put toxic waste aside and cannot and are 
closing down their businesses. Social Security recipients who want to 
sign up for Social Security the first time who cannot.
  It is affecting average Americans. Now we hear the most Orwellian of 
doublespeak from the other side. They blame President Clinton for this 
because of vetoing some bills that they do not like.

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  Well, Presidents have vetoed bills throughout history, Washington, 
Lincoln, Jefferson, and Roosevelt. But what is different this time is 
not that the President vetoes bills but that this is the first Congress 
and only one House of this Congress because Senator Dole is not going 
along that says, if the President does not sign every bill we pass, we 
are shutting down the Government. That is a disgrace. It is a disgrace 
to all Americans, particularly those affected by this horrible 
shutdown.

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