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




                 RESTORING FEDERAL SUPPORT FOR SHELTERS

  (Ms. WILD asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. WILD. Madam Speaker, as a freshman Member of this body, I take 
deep offense at the suggestion a little while ago here on the House 
floor by our colleagues on the other side of the aisle that House 
Democrats are responsible for this government shutdown.
  To the contrary, their leader in the Senate has failed his 
responsibility to the American people to bring a vote to the Senate 
floor on any of the nine appropriations bills passed by the House that 
would reopen this government.
  A few days ago, I visited Turning Point of Lehigh Valley in my 
district, a shelter that assists survivors of abuse and their families 
and that has stopped receiving Federal funding as a result of this 
shutdown. When I return to my district tomorrow, I will be visiting 
with more organizations that have been similarly affected.
  The shelter has a long waiting list. So while it does extraordinary 
work, it already struggles to maintain the funding it needs to take in 
all those who are suffering in the community, and that is the case in 
many communities across our country.
  So, if my colleagues on the other side of the aisle wish to do 
something constructive, they should go see their leader in the Senate 
and urge him to bring a vote to the floor.

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