[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 35 (Monday, March 2, 2015)]
[House]
[Page H1506]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                              DHS SHUTDOWN

  (Mr. KILDEE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. KILDEE. Mr. Speaker, well this week in Congress it is deja vu all 
over again.
  Last week, instead of bringing up a clean, long-term funding bill for 
the Department of Homeland Security, the House again kicked the can 
down the road. We know that we need to keep open and keep funding the 
operations of the Department, and we certainly can't make this yet 
another manufactured political crisis this week.
  We know, and everybody in this Hall knows, that there is support in 
the House, bipartisan support, for a clean Homeland Security bill. I 
don't know precisely what the numbers are, but more and more we hear 
from our friends on the Republican side that they would like to see a 
vote to fully fund DHS for the remainder of the year, and then take up 
in regular order the process of determining what immigration policy 
ought to look like in this country.
  We have big problems in this Nation. We have big challenges across 
the globe. We need to focus our attention on getting an economy that 
works for everyone and not continue to fight battles over manufactured 
political crises intended to pander to the smallest minds in this body. 
That is not the way the American people want us to work. We need to get 
back to the business of the American people.

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