[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 3 (Friday, January 5, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H308]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      CONCERNING THE DEBT CEILING

  (Mrs. KENNELLY asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. KENNELLY. Mr. Speaker, I would like to take up where the 
gentleman from Massachusetts [Mr. Frank] left off concerning the debt 
ceiling.
  Mr. Speaker, do we never learn? We are going through an exercise now 
concerning the continuing resolution. Across these United States the 
people do not know about a continuing resolution. What they see is that 
we stopped the Government. The people were told either to be idle or to 
come to work and not get paid.
  Mr. Speaker, today we have got it half right. We are having the 
people come back to work, but we are not giving them the tools of the 
trade. Let us not get involved with the debt ceiling in this kind of 
carryings on. The debt ceiling has to do with what the United States of 
America owes. Money owed is money that should be paid. It is money 
already spent. It is the full faith and credit of the United States of 
America.
  Mr. Speaker, let us next week pass a debt ceiling so that we can go 
on with getting the budget balanced in 7 years. We mixed apples and 
oranges with the budget negotiations with the continuing resolution. 
Let us please not allow the debt ceiling and this type of carryings on.

                          ____________________