[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 147 (Wednesday, October 16, 2013)]
[House]
[Page H6613]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                JUST HOURS REMAIN UNTIL NATION DEFAULTS

  (Mr. BARBER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BARBER. Mr. Speaker, I stand before you on this, the 16th day of 
the shutdown, with just hours remaining until our Nation defaults. The 
only way to end this crisis is for Members on both sides of the aisle 
to come together and take bipartisan action today. We need to do our 
job, and we must act responsibly. The Senate has a bipartisan plan, and 
we should take it up immediately.
  At home and across the Nation, the people we represent are facing 
harsh consequences: from the couple being denied a loan for their first 
home, to the Head Start kids whose school doors are shut, to the 
businesses with lost sales because national parks are closed, to the 
Border Patrol agent who can't pay his mortgage because his full 
paycheck hasn't come.
  Mr. Speaker, we must vote for commonsense solutions. We must end this 
shutdown. We must restore faith in the United States of America, and we 
must restore faith in this, the people's House.

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