[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 15 (Thursday, January 24, 2019)]
[House]
[Page H1189]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN

  (Mrs. KIRKPATRICK asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. KIRKPATRICK. Madam Speaker, I was in my district over the 
weekend. We had a couple of marches. We had a Women's March. We had a 
march for MLK Day.
  A man approached me, and he said: Representative Kirkpatrick, I work 
for the National Park Service. I am furloughed. I have no income. I 
have missed two paychecks.
  He said: My 9-year-old son gave me his Christmas gift card to help 
our family get by.
  He had tears in his eyes, and I am tearing right now just telling 
that story, because this shutdown is affecting families, children.
  The instability that these children are feeling--and we don't talk 
about that enough--is going to affect them for the rest of their lives.
  We have got to open the government, and we have got to do it now.

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