[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 2 (Thursday, January 4, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H95]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




              WE HAVE OUR PAY SO WE ARE GOING TO GO PLAY?

  (Mrs. SCHROEDER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. SCHROEDER. Mr. Speaker, we have heard excuse, after excuse, 
after excuse. Let us put the record straight. Let us look at facts, not 
rhetoric.
  Yesterday we had on this floor the potential of bringing up what the 
House should have brought up, and that was the resolution, passed 
unanimously in the U.S. Senate because the Senate, with Bob Dole, said 
enough is enough. Of course it is. Today the taxpayers will spend 
another $40 million for nothing, for nothing because they are going to 
keep this shutdown as we watch Head Start going into trouble, as we 
watch 240 small businesses a day not be able to get capital loans to 
keep going, and on, and on, and on.
  What are the Gingrich Republicans in the House saying? They get the 
Marie Antoinette compassion award. They are saying, ``Let them eat 
cake. We have our pay.''
  So, today we are going to vote a recess resolution. We are going to 
go play.
  Now I think the American people are very angry if they say, ``We have 
our pay, we're going to go play.''
  We cannot open it with keys. We open it with a voting card. They keep 
voting ``no.'' That is what is wrong.

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