[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 184 (Monday, November 18, 2019)]
[House]
[Page H8943]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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     CONTINUING RESOLUTIONS ARE NOT THE WAY CONGRESS SHOULD OPERATE

  (Mr. SPANO asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. SPANO. Mr. Speaker, tomorrow the House will consider another 
temporary funding measure, this time kicking the can down the road 
until December 20. We are nearly 2 months into the fiscal year, and not 
a single full-year appropriations bill has been completed. Continuing 
resolutions are not the way that we should operate.
  Priorities shift from year to year, and the longer a CR lasts, the 
more it hurts our military, our ports, and our infrastructure 
investment. I have seen no evidence that we are any closer to passing 
any full-year bills than at the end of September when we passed the 
last CR.
  You will hear my colleagues across the aisle blame this on Senate 
Republicans, however, the House majority appropriations bills were 
filled with poison pills that they continue to insist upon, such as 
preventing the use of funds for the border wall. And now the entire 
past month has been devoted to their sham impeachment efforts.
  I urge my colleagues, put the partisan investigations to the side so 
that we can come to a bipartisan agreement to fund the government in a 
responsible way.

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