[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 124 (Thursday, September 19, 2013)]
[House]
[Page H5668]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         CONTINUING RESOLUTION

  (Mr. BERA of California asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. BERA of California. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to condemn yet 
another manufactured crisis that House leadership has created. 
Americans are sick and tired of the fighting and of having their 
economic security put on the line repeatedly.
  Instead of doing their jobs and serving the people, House leadership 
is holding the American people hostage to partisan politics and taking 
us down a path to a government shutdown. That means our military 
serving overseas would have to work without pay while they're 
sacrificing for us. Their families are going to struggle. It means 
benefits to our veterans, who are already struggling to get benefits 
and enduring a backlog, are going to have to wait longer for those 
benefits. It means Americans who count on Social Security, a program 
that they paid into their whole life, may not be able to get their 
payments.
  This is absolutely shameful, Mr. Speaker. The clock is ticking. We've 
got 11 days. Let's do what is right and begin to work on a real 
budget--a budget that creates jobs, that secures a strong middle class 
and starts to reduce our debt and the burden on the next generation.
  Eleven days, Mr. Speaker.

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