[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 7 (Monday, January 14, 2019)]
[House]
[Pages H535-H536]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   BORDER WALL/AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLER

  (Ms. KAPTUR asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Ms. KAPTUR. Madam Speaker, let's pay tribute to the thousands of 
America's patriots going to work with no

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pay. It is wrong for the President to use his authority to harm our 
Republic. Public service employees hold our country together.
  Take this story shared by Micah Maziar, an air traffic controller 
from Toledo, Ohio, who told his account of a new trainee struggling to 
make ends meet. He is not being paid. After a full day's work, a full 
shift in a very stress-filled job, the trainee reports to his apartment 
complex to pick up trash as part of a deal with his landlord to offset 
rent during this Trump shutdown. This is unacceptable.
  The Commander in Chief holds our entire government hostage to his 
harebrained notion that you can stop drug trafficking with a wall. The 
drug traffickers must be laughing up a storm. They already dig tunnels 
under the existing walls and fly over them, too.
  To secure the border, our Nation needs thorough inspection of cargo. 
We need enhanced electronic surveillance through drones. Most of all, 
we need a President who understands you don't stop the drug trade by 
furloughing border agents without pay.

  For the hundreds of thousands of America's hardworking Federal 
patriots and for the American people whom they serve, we must reopen 
the government immediately.

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