[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 9 (Wednesday, January 24, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H779]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   TIME FOR CONGRESS TO WORK TOGETHER

  (Mr. DOGGETT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DOGGETT. Mr. Speaker, neither political party has a monopoly on 
truth. We need to work together, as President Clinton urged last night, 
to find some common ground about the problems that this Nation faces.
  There is not any good reason why we cannot put the fanaticism of this 
Gingrich-led Congress behind us. Enough of the temper tantrums; enough 
of the Government shutdowns that waste taxpayer money; enough of the 
threats to reject the full faith and credit of the United States of 
America.
  The time to start anew is today, working together, to address this 
question of the adjustment of the debt limit. We cannot afford to have 
the first default in the next month in the history of this Nation. Six 
former Treasury Secretaries, Republicans and Democrats alike, have come 
together to urge us to address this debt limit issue. We ought to do it 
today. It is the same kind of bipartisan support we need from our House 
colleagues to address this very serious matter.
  Every single American who has got a credit card loan balance, who has 
a variable mortgage, who might ever want to take out a loan, had a 
stake in our protecting the credit of this country.

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