[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 136 (Friday, October 4, 2013)]
[House]
[Page H6273]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   LET THE SENATORS VOTE FOR FAIRNESS

  (Ms. FOXX asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Ms. FOXX. Madam Speaker, consider the common ground the House has 
offered Senate Democrats, common ground Senator Harry Reid is 
squandering by refusing to talk.
  We want to reopen government. We want to restore vital services. The 
Senate won't budge. They won't even negotiate. Why? Because ensuring 
fair treatment for Americans under ObamaCare is evidently too radical 
for some in the Senate.
  The President provided big businesses a 1-year break to ready 
themselves for ObamaCare. Shouldn't he provide American families the 
same? The House thinks so. So does Democrat Senator Joe Manchin:
  Give them at least a year, he said. You gave the corporate sector a 
year, don't you think it'd be fair?
  Yes, because it is.
  But Senator Reid won't talk. He won't end the shutdown because he's 
insistent the double standard remains intact.
  Senator Reid, let's not waste the common ground we have. Let's talk. 
Let's treat Americans fairly. Let's open their government.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mrs. Brooks of Indiana). Members are 
reminded to address their remarks to the Chair.

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