[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 3 (Friday, January 5, 1996)]
[House]
[Pages H189-H190]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   INTO THE REALM OF THE UNBELIEVABLE

  (Mr. PALLONE asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. PALLONE. Mr. Speaker, I continue to be amazed by what I hear from 
the Republican side. I think truly they have gone over to become a 
bunch of kooks this morning. I heard that they are finally going to 
bring up a continuing resolution to send the Government workers back to 
work and to pay them, but I understand they are not going to be able to 
do their work. They are not going to be spending money or appropriating 
money so they can actually do their job.
  They will be on the job. They will be paid, but they will not be able 
to perform their job. Then I heard another 

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kooky thing this morning. They are suggesting that the Secretary of the 
Treasury be impeached because he is trying to avoid a Government 
default. Truly now, I realize that the Republican side, the Republican 
leadership has really gone over into the realm of the unbelievable. 
They are acting like a bunch of crazies who want to impeach the 
Secretary of the Treasury because he wants to avoid a default, who want 
to send the Government workers back to work and get paid but they are 
not allowed to perform their jobs.

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