[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 10 (Thursday, January 25, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H854]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                APPEAL FOR A CLEAN DEBT LIMIT EXTENSION

  (Mr. STUPAK asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. STUPAK. Mr. Speaker, the previous speaker has been here only 3 
years, the same as I, but in the last several months he voted three 
times to extend the debt limit.
  In his budget reconciliation bill, in these budget bills, in these 
horrendous bills that the other side put forward to give $245 billion 
in tax breaks to the wealthiest and cut Medicare and Medicaid, Mr. 
Speaker, if we look in those bills, three times my Republican 
colleagues have already voted to extend the debt limit. So what is the 
problem? Give us a cleaner CR. Let us increase the debt limit.
  The other speakers would say we are spending money prospectively. 
Brimley School District in the Upper Peninsula is waiting for its 
$600,000 impact aid payment it cannot have because the other side will 
not pass a full, clean CR. They will not pass a debt limit extension. 
They will just sit on their hands as this school district has to go out 
and borrow money to stay afloat; while they stand here and say, ``We 
never did this.'' But my Republican colleagues have done it three times 
already this year.
  Mr. Speaker, let us be honest with the American people. Let us get a 
clean bill up here. Let us get a clean CR and let us raise the debt 
limit, as they have already voted to do three times.

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