[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]




            JOIN THE SENATE AND PASS A CONTINUING RESOLUTION

  (Mr. SANDERS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. SANDERS. Mr. Speaker, 480,000 Federal employees are working 
without pay, a form of involuntary servitude; 280,000 Federal employees 
are not working, and they will be paid. Virtually all of these workers 
have mortgages to pay, children to feed, and financial obligations to 
meet.
  Mr. Speaker, what is happening to these workers is immoral, is wrong, 
and must be rectified immediately. Newt Gingrich and the Republican 
leadership must not continue to hold the House and the American people 
hostage while they push their disastrous 7-year balanced budget plan. 
The gentleman from Georgia, Mr. Gingrich, and the Republican leadership 
must join Senator Dole and the entire Senate and pass a continuing 
resolution now, now to reopen Government.
  Mr. Speaker, that is what the American people want, that is what they 
need, and that is what this body must do.

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