[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 129 (Thursday, September 26, 2013)]
[House]
[Page H5843]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN LOOMS

  (Mr. KILDEE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. KILDEE. Mr. Speaker, once again, crucial deadlines loom, and here 
we are circling the drain, days away from another Republican-
manufactured government shutdown due to the irresponsible lack of 
governing. Instead of forging--or even attempting to forge--a 
bipartisan compromise, we have another manufactured crisis, putting 
America on another roller-coaster ride.
  Unfortunately, we have been here before, with the other party playing 
politics and pandering to their Tea Party base rather than doing what 
we were sent here to do, and that is to govern. It's enough. The 
American public is fed up with this.
  It's time to drop the foolishness and stop pursuing--through 
threatening means that threaten the economy--what you can't achieve at 
the ballot box or through legislation.
  The implications of this shutdown are real: it will hurt the American 
economy, and it threatens direct benefits that our veterans and people 
with disabilities receive. There's just too much at stake.
  Republicans should drop this charade and do the job that we were 
elected to do, and that is govern, pass a budget, and protect the 
rights of the American people.

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