[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]




                      THREE STRIKES AND GOP IS OUT

  (Mr. MARKEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. MARKEY. Mr. Speaker, already twice the Government has been shut 
down, once in the fall, once in December, and now we are skidding up 
towards a third point where the Government could be shut down yet 
again.
  The conditions that the Republicans are imposing, we must cut the EPA 
by 20 percent, we must cut the Department of interior by 10 percent, we 
must gut environmental laws or else they will not allow the Government 
to operate.
  GOP used to stand for Grand Old Party. Now GOP stands for gang of 
polluters who will shut down the Government unless we gut environmental 
laws in this country. They say the definition of insanity is someone 
that keeps doing the same thing over and over again expecting a 
different result.

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  The Republicans think they can shut down the Federal Government for a 
third time and that the people of this country will not be upset. They 
will be. This time they are going to say, ``Three strikes and you're 
out.''

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