[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 134 (Wednesday, October 2, 2013)]
[House]
[Page H6121]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          PASS SENATE CR TODAY

  (Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute.)
  Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York. Mr. Speaker, the path to ending 
this shutdown right now is clear: bring up the clean Senate-passed CR 
for a vote. That would end this manufactured, self-inflicted crisis 
immediately.
  These piecemeal attempts at deflection offered by my friends on the 
other side of the aisle are wretched governance.
  Compromise is built into our Constitution, and the Senate-passed CR 
is itself a compromise. It accepts the annual spending level of $986 
billion, roughly $70 billion less than what the Senate endorsed in its 
budget plan earlier this year.
  Again, this manufactured crisis could end right now by voting on the 
clean Senate continuing resolution today.
  According to Moody's, a shutdown that lasts even 3 or 4 days will 
cost the economy approximately 0.2 percentage points of the annual GDP 
growth in the fourth quarter. And the consequences only get worse, as 
the shutdown continues, on our economy. This completely avoidable 
contraction is the opposite of policies we need to create jobs and 
strengthen and grow our economy.
  We need to pass a clean CR today.

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