[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 10 (Thursday, January 17, 2019)]
[House]
[Page H683]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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                                SHUTDOWN

  (Mr. SCHNEIDER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SCHNEIDER. Madam Speaker, I rise to implore the President to stop 
holding Federal workers hostage and immediately end this shutdown.
  I think every day of the TSA agent I recently spoke with at the 
airport. She is now working without pay, a young single mother raising 
her 15-year-old daughter. She told me she is really struggling to make 
ends meet without her paycheck. Her story is not unique.
  A constituent from Mundelein shared that she doesn't know how she 
will pay her bills, including her mortgage, and has had to borrow money 
from her family.
  Another constituent, a Federal employee in Round Lake, has been 
working without pay. He wrote: ``Why are we a bargaining tool for 
something beyond our control?''
  Why indeed, Mr. President?
  We may disagree on the best way to secure our border, but we can all 
agree that the good women and men working on our Nation's behalf should 
be paid for their work--the TSA and FAA workers keeping our skies safe, 
the FDA workers keeping our food safe, and the Coast Guard protecting 
our borders.
  Do the responsible thing: reopen our government, and then let's have 
a robust, honest debate about how to secure our borders.

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