[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 13 (Wednesday, January 31, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H976]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   STOP JEOPARDIZING AMERICA'S CREDIT

  (Mr. DOGGETT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. DOGGETT. Mr. Speaker, as so many Texans gathered yesterday in 
Austin to honor Senator Ralph Yarborough, I was reminded of his urging 
that we ought to put the jam on the lower shelf so the little people 
can reach it. How appropriate those words are this morning.
  Speaker Gingrich wants to put all the jam up there on the top shelf 
so that those who are sitting comfortably on the top ladder can reach 
up there and get the tax breaks and the crown jewels. Those that are 
down there on the bottom rung, working families, they reach into the 
cupboard and they find it bare. All they get is a notice for raised 
taxes under this Republican economic plan.
  Mr. Speaker, meanwhile the Speaker is talking about getting this 
country into a jam of a far different type: Defaulting on the full 
faith and credit of the United States of America, the kind of idea we 
would have only heard on the crackpot circuit a year ago. Well, it is 
time to stop jeopardizing with these political shenanigans the future 
of working families across America.

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