On the recordJanuary 3, 1996
It is really silly, I would say it is lunacy that today we tell Federal workers that they can work but not be paid, while at the same time here in this House we are getting paid and we are not working. We have not really done anything today. Look at the legislation that was passed. Unanimous consent on a little agriculture bill which we needed, but that is all. What did we do? What are we going to do tomorrow? Nothing. What are we going to do the next day? We are going to recess, we are going to recess until the 23d, almost the whole month, not do anything, get paid, while the Federal workers out there, the Republican majority tells them, ``You go ahead and work but you won't get paid.'' It is pure lunacy. What is lunacy? It is insanity, great or wild foolishness. You never saw anything foolish like this in the history of this Congress.
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