[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 134 (Wednesday, October 2, 2013)]
[House]
[Page H6119]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




              FAIRNESS IS NOT SHUTTING DOWN THE GOVERNMENT

  (Mrs. BEATTY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. BEATTY. Mr. Speaker, so often we hear our colleagues saying, We 
come here to Congress to protect and to represent the American people. 
Well, the American people have spoken. They have asked us to open the 
doors of government, not shut them.
  Mr. Speaker, I say to you that we cannot let you have a few of your 
Republican Members hold the government hostage because they dislike 
this President or they dislike the Affordable Care Act.
  We cannot piecemeal this funding cycle, because fairness is not 
letting children starve. Eleven States will not be able to have grants 
for Head Start. The NIH has announced that they are not going to be 
able to have clinical trials for hundreds of patients. Thirty of those 
cancer patients are children.
  Fairness is not starving small businesses. Fairness is not 
piecemealing it. It's like having a large family and asking the parents 
to pick three children to feed and let the others starve before their 
eyes.
  We are starving America, we are starving government. And I say to my 
Republican colleagues, fairness is not shutting down the government.

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