[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 15 (Thursday, January 24, 2019)]
[House]
[Pages H1195-H1196]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      END THIS GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN

  (Mr. BROWN of Maryland asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BROWN of Maryland. Madam Speaker, I rise to demand, insist, and 
beseech President Trump to end this shutdown now and open the Federal 
Government.
  I represent the fifth largest number of Federal Government employees. 
Every day I see, I hear, and I feel the pain and suffering of the 
Federal Government employees and contractors in my neighborhoods and my 
communities. One out of every ten residents in my Maryland district 
live in a household headed by a Federal Government employee or 
contractor.
  This Monday at a community event supporting our Federal employees, I 
met a woman with her 2-month-old infant child. She is an essential 
employee at the Food and Drug Administration. She needs to be and wants 
to be on the job, but she simply can't. She can't because she can't 
afford to pay for childcare for her infant daughter.
  She is having difficulty paying for groceries, providing lunch money 
for her two elementary school-aged boys, and is on the verge of not 
being able to pay either her rent or her car note.
  She was sobbing uncontrollably. She was weeping painfully, and 
pleading for you, Mr. President, to open the government, to let her 
work with dignity, to support her children, and to do her job.

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  President Trump, end this shutdown now.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Members are reminded to address their 
remarks to the Chair.

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