[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 32 (Wednesday, February 25, 2015)]
[House]
[Page H1122]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     COUNTING DOWN TO GOP SHUTDOWN

  (Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York asked and was given permission 
to address the House for 1 minute.)
  Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York. Mr. Speaker, the Republicans are 
playing politics with the security of the American people, and the 
American people deserve better.
  What was absolutely laughable a few days ago, it now appears that 
they are prepared to shut down the Department of Homeland Security. 
They won't budge, even though they have known all along that the House 
version of the bill will never pass the Senate, and if it did, the 
President would surely veto it, as he should.
  They are willing to burden this entire country with all the dangers 
and disruptions that a funding lapse would bring. They are willing to 
shut down funding for the security in the New York City rail system, 
communications equipment in Los Angeles, bomb-sniffing dogs in 
Massachusetts, and firefighter positions across this Nation, just so 
that they can put on another hollow, pointless political show.
  This legislation is failure by design. I find it scandalous that the 
Islamic terrorists are fully funded; yet the Department of Homeland 
Security that protects our citizens may not be.
  I urge a vote on a clean Homeland Security bill for the protection of 
our citizens.

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