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




                  PUT THE GOVERNMENT BACK IN OPERATION

  (Mr. VOLKMER asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. VOLKMER. Mr. Speaker, lunacy still prevails in the House of 
Representatives under Speaker Newt Gingrich. Since December 15, we have 
had Federal employees locked out, cannot go to work. We have Federal 
employees that are working but are not going to get paid.
  Now the Republican lunatics are now going to propose that we let the 
Federal workers go to work, that is fine, get paid, that is fine, but 
they cannot do anything because they are not going to fund the 
functions that they are to perform. Lunacy still prevails.
  Now, it is interesting to me that just last night the Speaker said, 
``As a former Army brat, I believe it is morally wrong and indefensible 
to have Federal workers in the crossfire.'' Yet he has refused to 
permit a clean resolution to continue the operation of the Federal 
Government to come forward.
  We, on this side, have repeatedly, since December 15, asked to take 
up a clean resolution. Let us put the Government back in operation.

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