[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 24 (Tuesday, February 27, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H1262]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   IT IS TIME TO GET DOWN TO BUSINESS

  (Mr. PALLONE asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. PALLONE. Mr. Speaker, we are back now from a 3-week district work 
period, and I think it is really important that we get down to 
business.
  My constituents that I visited at town meetings and forums over the 
last 3 weeks all indicated to me they were tired of the Government 
shutdowns, they were tired of the possibility of the Government going 
into default. They felt it was really incumbent upon the Republican 
leadership and Speaker Gingrich to get down to business, forget about 
the extremist agenda, and the effort to try to inculcate this extremist 
ideology, and instead we should be working in the House of 
Representatives to try to deal with the economic problems the average 
American has.
  There is still a lot of job instability out there. There is 
downsizing taking place in the corporate world in New Jersey and 
throughout this country. These are issues that we must be dealing with.
  We cannot continue to hold the Government hostage with possible 
Government shutdowns or with the possibility of getting into default. 
We simply have to get down to business. That is the message that must 
get across to the Republican leadership here in the House of 
Representatives. The time is now to get the job done.

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