[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 150 (Monday, September 18, 2023)]
[House]
[Page H4374]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   OPPOSING THE CONTINUING RESOLUTION

  (Mr. GAETZ asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GAETZ. Mr. Speaker, I am not voting for a continuing resolution. 
I am not voting to continue the failure and the waste and the 
corruption and the election interference, and in some cases, the 
efforts that could lead this country into world war III.
  I oppose the CR authored by my friend and colleague from Florida, 
Byron Donalds. The Donalds CR continues the Ukraine policy negotiated 
by Speaker Pelosi and Mitch McConnell in the omnibus that conservatives 
were against.
  The Donalds CR is a permission slip for Jack Smith to continue his 
election interference as they are trying to gag the former President of 
the United States and the leading contender for the Republican 
nomination.
  The Donalds CR abandons the principle that it is only a review of 
single-subject spending bills that will save this country and allow us 
to tweeze through these programs and force these agencies to stand up 
and defend their budget.
  I say to my friends that we are approaching the days where we are 
facing a $2 trillion annual deficits atop a $33 trillion debt. This is 
unsustainable.

  To just continue things with some facial 8 percent cut over 30 days 
that will lead to no programmatic reform is an insult to the principles 
we fought for in January.

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