[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 136 (Friday, October 4, 2013)]
[House]
[Page H6242]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                SHUTDOWN

  (Mrs. KIRKPATRICK asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mrs. KIRKPATRICK. Mr. Speaker, the good people in my Arizona district 
are disgusted with this Congress. They see Washington treating this 
shutdown as a political game.
  News reports now confirm that there are enough votes in the House--
Democrats and Republicans--to pass a clean funding bill and reopen the 
government right now. Yet the House GOP keeps bringing up piecemeal 
bills that are going nowhere, designed to create campaign attack 
fodder.
  This week, the House majority cynically used piecemeal votes on 
veterans and national parks. My district has the Grand Canyon and many 
national parks; and as a member of the Veterans' Affairs Committee, I'm 
disgusted with these dead-end, piecemeal games. And you know who else 
is disgusted? Veterans.
  Yesterday, the commander in chief of the VFW said:

       We expect more from our elected leadership, and not a 
     piecemeal approach that would use the military or disabled 
     veterans as leverage in a political game.

  Mr. Speaker, we must stop the piecemeal games and restart our 
government now.

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