[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 136 (Friday, October 4, 2013)]
[House]
[Page H6241]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    TURN THE SWITCH ON, MR. SPEAKER

  (Mr. SWALWELL of California asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SWALWELL of California. Mr. Speaker, it is a dark day today in 
America and the lights of the greatest government of the greatest 
democracy in the world are out. The only person who can turn those 
lights back on, the only person who controls the switch is Speaker John 
Boehner, not the Tea Party.
  Turn that switch on, Mr. Speaker. Turn it on for the Federal worker 
at Camp Parks in Dublin, California, who is seeking unemployment 
benefits and asking to extend the mortgage on his house. Turn it on for 
the children who are awaiting clinical trials at the National 
Institutes of Health. Turn it on for our veterans, whose claims will be 
delayed. Turn on the lights, Mr. Speaker, for the hungry women and 
children who will be affected by delayed WIC funding. Turn on the 
lights for our Capitol Hill Police, who stand guard at the people's 
House without pay.
  Mr. Speaker, you can turn back on the lights of the government that 
runs the greatest democracy in the world. Just give us a vote.

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