Charles Skelton: “in all of this discussion and debate about who goes to work, who does not go to work, who gets paid, who does not get…”

“in all of this discussion and debate about who goes to work, who does not go to work, who gets paid, who does not get paid, who will have the tools and the gasoline and the wherewithal to do their work, I am reminded of the comment once made by my fellow Missourian, Mark Twain: ``The more you explain it to me, the more I don't understand it.'' It was Lyndon Johnson who liked to use the phrase ``Let us come and reason together.'' If we did that as a body collectively, this Nation would be far better off. It would drive us irresistibly to two conclusions: No. 1, we would adopt what the Senate has done, under the leadership of Senator Dole, from my neighboring Kansas; it would also cause us to look seriously at the Democratic conservative coalition proposal that got a substantial number of votes on this floor. Thre is an answer to this impasse: reason. Adults, people of good will, can reach those decisions. That is what we should do.”