[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 15]
[House]
[Page 21729]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



             LET US QUICKLY REJECT THE 13 MONTH FISCAL YEAR

  (Mr. CHABOT asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. CHABOT. Mr. Speaker, from time to time, we hear some pretty wacky 
ideas in Washington, none wackier than a recent suggestion, apparently 
emanating from the other body that the Congress adopt a 13-month fiscal 
year so as to circumvent the budget caps we agreed to back in 1998 
which, as I recall, was a standard 12-month year. What will we call the 
newly created 13th month? Taxember? Spenduary?
  And what will our big government friends think of next in their 
ongoing fiscal assault on hard-working, taxpaying families. An 8-day 
week? A 30-hour day? With more time for everybody to work for the tax 
man?
  I have a really unique suggestion. Let us keep our promises, stand by 
the commitment we made to the American people. Let us honor those 
spending caps that the Congress and the President agreed to only about 
a year ago. Let us give the American people something they are not 
accustomed to, a Congress and a President who keep their word. I guess 
that is something you see only once in a blue moon, or, as they say, 
only in a 13-month year.

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