[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 136 (Friday, October 4, 2013)]
[House]
[Page H6240]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        REOPEN GOVERNMENT TODAY

  (Mr. KILDEE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. KILDEE. Mr. Speaker, every day that our Federal Government is 
closed, our economy gets weaker and necessary services that the 
American people depend upon are not available to them.
  But what do we get? Rather than taking up the Senate-passed 
continuing resolution, we get a series of bills for PR value that are 
purportedly intended to reopen government, but nobody is fooled. We 
know that there's no real intent on the part of the other side to 
reopen government because you don't want to give up your leverage to 
try to defeat or repeal or defund the Affordable Care Act.
  You lost in the House of Representatives. You lost in the Senate. You 
lost the campaign for the White House on this question. You lost in the 
Supreme Court. If this were baseball, you hit for the cycle and you 
lost all four.
  We know that if these bills continue to come to us one or two a day, 
you'll have the Federal Government reopen sometime next spring. Let's 
do it this afternoon. When we come to this floor, you'll have a chance 
to vote on a clean CR, if you bring it up.
  Let's reopen government today and stop this charade.

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