[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 139 (Tuesday, October 8, 2013)]
[House]
[Page H6399]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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                          OPEN THE GOVERNMENT

  (Ms. JACKSON LEE asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Ms. JACKSON LEE. Mr. Speaker, we in Texas know that when the cattle 
starts stampeding, you're really in trouble; so my friends on the other 
side of the aisle haven't realized that the cattle in the United States 
is stampeding: 57,000 seats of Head Start are going; veterans centers 
will be closed in a couple of days; Federal courts are looking at 
whether or not they can stay open past October 15; U.S. attorneys are 
laying off various U.S. attorneys across America, up to 4,000.
  We actually have rules in this House, the rules that brought about 
the agreement in the beginning of the year where we actually agreed to 
the 986 number that the Republicans had. We agreed to the tax reform 
that the Republicans had and Democrats agreed. But now they want to 
throw on us another supercommittee--fool's folly--talking about 
discretionary spending, the debt ceiling, and entitlement reform--all 
decent ideas, but open the government first.
  Get the bill on the floor that is clean. Open the government. Raise 
the debt ceiling to pay our bills. Let the American people get back to 
work. Let our veterans get services. Stop throwing down another 
committee. We don't catch cattle. We don't go after cattle in Texas by 
throwing down a committee. We get it done.
  Let's get the job done. Let's stop the stampede.

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