[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 33 (Tuesday, March 12, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H2040]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                  THIRD GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN IN OFFING

  (Mr. LINDER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LINDER. Mr. Speaker, this morning's Washington Post had an 
article quoting the Senate minority leader as saying that we are 5 days 
from a third Government shutdown and the situation is every bit as 
precarious as it was several months ago.
  What it did not go on to say was why we are close to a Government 
shutdown: Because the President wants to spend more money on his 
favorite projects. He wanted $8 billion. The House passed a bill 
providing $3.3 billion, but that did not include the $7 million more to 
foreign countries to teach students to measure rainfall; $10 million 
more for the controversial art projects funded by the National 
Endowment for the Arts.
  There may be another Government shutdown, Mr. Speaker, but it will be 
entirely on the President's shoulders because he cannot get rid of his 
appetite for more spending projects.

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