[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 10 (Thursday, January 17, 2019)]
[House]
[Page H704]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      NEGATIVE IMPACT OF SHUTDOWN

  (Ms. BLUNT ROCHESTER asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. BLUNT ROCHESTER. Madam Speaker, I rise today on behalf of 800,000 
Federal workers and millions of Americans who have been negatively 
impacted by President Trump's shutdown. Like many of you, hundreds of 
my constituents have written into my office to share how the shutdown 
is impacting them.
  One of my constituents in Bear, Delaware, is an air traffic 
controller at the Philadelphia International Airport. He has been 
working without pay to ensure travelers can travel and continue living 
their lives during this shutdown, something he is struggling to do 
himself.
  He shared how the shutdown is placing immense financial strain on his 
family and the needs of his child, who has a disability, that the 
stress of not receiving a paycheck and not knowing when the next will 
come is too much.
  Our constituents deserve better. We are on day 27 of this 
unprecedented shutdown. Democrats have already voted eight times to 
reopen the Federal Government, and yet, still, we wait on the Senate 
Republicans to act.
  This shutdown is unprecedented, but we have an opportunity to set a 
new precedent, a positive one, where we work together on comprehensive 
immigration reform and border security.
  First, let's open the government.

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