[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 151 (Tuesday, September 19, 2023)]
[House]
[Pages H4390-H4391]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




              ELEVEN DAYS AWAY FROM A GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN

  (Mr. McGOVERN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, we are 11 days--11 days--away from a 
government shutdown and the rightwing of the Republican Party is busy 
fighting with the far rightwing. The sham plan Republicans have cobbled 
together this week gets us nowhere closer to funding the government. It 
goes back on the bipartisan deal struck earlier this year and is dead 
on arrival in the Senate,

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and it shows where Republican priorities are.
  By imposing draconian cuts on domestic programs, their sham CR means 
massive cuts to programs for people living in poverty and everything 
from housing support to heating assistance to WIC benefits.
  Make no mistake: If we don't reject these cuts and if we don't fully 
fund the Biden administration's $1.4 billion supplemental WIC request, 
eligible low-income people, primarily toddlers, preschoolers, and 
postpartum moms could be turned away from food. I can't for the life of 
me think of a more rotten thing to do.
  Pregnant moms and their young families are counting on you, so let's 
drop the theatrics, come together, fully fund WIC, and work toward 
ending hunger now.

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