[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 147 (Wednesday, October 16, 2013)]
[House]
[Page H6614]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN

  (Ms. KAPTUR asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Ms. KAPTUR. Mr. Speaker, it appears a negotiated proposal that is 
bipartisan will come to a vote before this House today to end the 
government shutdown and avert a debt default. The American people 
surely are looking for reassurance that their government will offer 
them the security and dependability that they expect.
  Our citizens expect a Nation that is confident and certain, not 
unsteady and uncertain. With the expectation that this compromise from 
the Senate will now be brought before the House, the Dow today already 
is up 200 points. That is what America wants--a growing economy, job 
creation here at home, a government run efficiently as part of a larger 
whole in which we all have a stake. As our Nation grows itself out of 
the deepest recession in modern history, the least any Member can do is 
do no harm.
  A working bipartisan majority here in this House holds the power to 
govern this Nation. All it needs is the will. Frankly, the world 
depends on the certainty of the U.S. dollar. Let's get back to regular 
order. America's challenge is to grow our economy and the jobs that go 
with it.
  Mr. Speaker, let's vote to end the shutdown today, pay our bills, and 
get America back to work for the American people. It is overtime.

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