[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 143 (Sunday, October 11, 1998)]
[House]
[Pages H10517-H10518]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                              {time}  1415
 THIS CONGRESS HAS ONLY WORKED 108 DAYS THIS YEAR--FIRE THE REPUBLICAN 
                                CONGRESS

  (Mr. MILLER of California asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MILLER of California. Mr. Speaker, it is not a mystery why this 
has been one of the least productive congresses in history, why this is 
a do-nothing Congress, because this Congress has only worked 108 days 
this year. Most working people worked in excess of 225 days, 250 days 
this year. This Congress only worked 108 days. Now they find out after 
108 days of working that they did not do their work, that they are not 
done. They say, ``Where is the President?'' The President has been 
waiting for the appropriations bills. The President has been waiting 
for the budget. This is the first Congress since 1974 that had no 
budget. This is a Congress that cannot pass seven of its appropriations 
bills. There is nothing for the President to

[[Page H10518]]

sign because they cannot get the appropriations bills out of the House 
of Representatives. They cannot get agreement among the Republicans in 
the House or the Republicans in the House and in the Senate.
  Mr. Speaker, if most Americans worked as few days as this Republican 
Congress, they would be fired. Their employers would ask for their 
money back. Maybe that is what the public ought to do is fire the 
Republican Congress.

                          ____________________