[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 164 (Wednesday, September 22, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S6597]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           GOVERNMENT FUNDING

  Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, now on a related matter, yesterday 
evening, Senator Shelby and I introduced a continuing resolution that 
could pass the Senate and prevent a government shutdown. Our 
legislation would fund the government through December. It would 
restore the defensive assistance for our ally Israel that House 
Democrats stripped out to appease some of the worst elements of the far 
left.
  As one frustrated Democratic Congressman stated yesterday, ``A 
missile defense system [like] Iron Dome defends civilians from 
missiles. Hence the name. Only in a morally inverted universe would 
this be considered a `controversy.' '' That is a House Democrat 
describing the action yesterday of House Democrats.
  Our bill also removes the debt limit language that Democrats have 
known since July--since July--will not receive bipartisan support from 
Senate Republicans. As one of my colleagues put it succinctly, if 
Washington Democrats want to jam through trillions of dollars in 
reckless spending all by themselves, they can raise the debt limit all 
by themselves. If they want to do one, they will need to do the other. 
To do one, if they need to do one, they will do the other. It is that 
simple.

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