[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 8 (Tuesday, January 23, 1996)]
[Senate]
[Pages S291-S292]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                PASSAGE OF ANOTHER CONTINUING RESOLUTION

  Mr. KENNEDY. Mr. President, I intend to use my time to address where 
we are as a nation in terms of the impact of the continuing resolution 
at 75 percent, but I see the majority leader still here. It is a little 
difficult to state at this time whether there would be objection to a 
continuing resolution since we are not informed at this time as to what 
would be in the continuing resolution. And I know that there is a 
desire among some of our colleagues to be able to introduce clean 
budget ceiling legislation to move toward addressing one of the 
critical issues before the Nation.

  So I, just for one, want to work in cooperation with the leadership, 
the majority leader and the minority leader, but I do think it is 
probably premature to try to make a judgment of whether we are going to 
be able to get agreements on no votes at all, because we at this time 
do not have a continuing resolution. We saw the changes that were made 
in the continuing resolution at the final hours the last time. We do 
not know where we are going to be on the debt ceiling issue. And I, for 
one, feel that we ought to be around here doing 

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the Nation's business between now and the end of February.
  With all respect to those who have different schedules, I find it 
somewhat difficult to understand why we are not here dealing with the 
Nation's business on the range of different issues that have not been 
addressed in the Senate. We have a number of those. One of the most 
important is the whole issue of what is going to be the future for the 
young people in this country with a continuing resolution that just 
funds education at some 75 percent of what it was a year ago, with all 
of the implications that that has in higher education and also K 
through 12.

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