What was the government shutdown 1995

Good Subscriber Account active since Shortcuts. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. It often indicates a user profile. Log out. US Markets Loading H M S In the news. Michal Kranz and Mariana Alfaro. If the government shutdown doesn't end by Saturday, it will become the longest in US history.

Currently, the longest government shutdown in history took place from to under former President Bill Clinton. That shutdown came less than a month after another shutdown in November , and was the result of the same set of budgetary issues. The record ' shutdown only resulted in , employees having to miss work, which is less than half of the estimated , furloughs for the shutdown. Though the two parties were disagreeing about different issues, the shutdown was similar to the impasse in several key ways.

Get a daily selection of our top stories based on your reading preferences. There was little agreement about how exactly this would be accomplished, however, and negotiations over the budget quickly dissolved.

When the new continuing resolution that had been agreed to in November expired on December 15, the government shut down again. Over the following twenty-two days White House and Congressional negotiators struggled to hammer out an agreement over the budget, with the end result that, by January the President and Congress agreed to a seven year balanced budget plan that included modest spending cuts and tax increases.

Politically speaking, President Clinton got the better of the government shutdown. But if you see something that doesn't look right, click here to contact us! Twice a week we compile our most fascinating features and deliver them straight to you. Live TV. This Day In History. You had to have some police down there, some guards. The Park Service has to have their people down there.

So what were we going to do about that? And some other company volunteered security guards. So I kept the lights on the Christmas tree, which might have been the wrong political decision. It might have been better to turn them off. Q: What do you recall about the dynamics of those meetings? Did you ever get the sense that the President was second-guessing whether this was the right thing to do?

Rivlin: It was a very odd time. I found the Administration position very hard to defend because I thought that we should be moving further in the direction of budget balance. I remember there were two of us on one side of the table and four of them. You make this presentation. They probably should have rejected it. So I did—we were in negotiation at that point—I said what our offer was. The meeting went on for a little while, but it broke down.

They rejected it, and we went back to the White House. Remember this was a revolution, and there were revolutionaries who had been elected based on the Contract for America.

I honestly think that deep down Newt Gingrich understood that this was probably the wrong thing to do. But I think to a large extent his hands were tied because he had created this group of members who really believed that their mission in life was to get their budget adopted, to get their contract adopted. And because they had been elected on that basis, they would lose the momentum if they capitulated at this point. So I think they deeply believed that they were going to show to the country just how deeply they believed they were right by shutting down the government.