[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 10 (Thursday, January 17, 2019)]
[House]
[Pages H702-H703]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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                           REOPEN GOVERNMENT

  (Mr. CARDENAS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. CARDENAS. Madam Speaker, I am very proud and so blessed to have 
been born in the greatest Nation on Earth, the United States of 
America, and I am a proud, proud American citizen, a proud husband, 
father, son, and grandfather.
  I come to you today in the midst of the longest shutdown in the 
history of this country. I am disgusted that the issue here isn't about 
protecting veterans or Americans' healthcare or education. Instead, it 
is about the demand for Trump's wall.
  Last week, I voted to end the shutdown. The bill passed this House, 
and it sits in the United States Senate. Last year, the Senate 
unanimously passed basically the same funding bill, so what is the 
difference now?
  President Trump has taken over the United States Senate, and now he 
wants to punish the American people by attacking our national security, 
our safety, and the lives of the men and women who serve our great 
country, expecting them to work without a paycheck.
  Trump's shutdown is hurting the Coast Guard, that, right now, is 
protecting our national security. No pay for their families. They are 
relying on food banks to feed their families.
  The Trump shutdown is literally endangering the lives of workers like

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Mallory Lorge, who, without pay, cannot afford the insulin she needs to 
stay alive.
  President Trump, I demand that you reopen government and you stop 
your Trump shutdown.

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