[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 6 (Friday, January 11, 2019)]
[House]
[Pages H510-H511]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       END THE TRUMP SHUTDOWN NOW

  (Mr. CLAY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. CLAY. Mr. Speaker, the U.S. Government, the greatest Nation on 
Earth, should never shut down. Never. It is outrageous, it is totally 
unnecessary, and it must end immediately.
  Today, 800,000 Federal workers who go to work every day to serve this 
Nation and the American people won't get

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paid, not because they did a bad job, but because of a temper tantrum 
from a President whose first allegiance is not to the national 
interest, but to protecting his fragile ego, and keeping his racist 
campaign promise to build a wall that no one with an ounce of common 
sense wants.
  The U.S. House has passed legislation to open the government, pay our 
employees and contractors, and get on with the people's business. It is 
up to Leader McConnell and the President to do their jobs and end this 
ridiculous Trump shutdown.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Members are reminded to refrain from 
engaging in personalities toward the President.

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