[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 158 (Thursday, September 28, 2023)]
[House]
[Pages H4850-H4851]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     IMPENDING GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN

  (Mr. PAYNE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PAYNE. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to discuss the impending 
government shutdown.
  Since 1980, there have been at least 14 times when the government was 
shut down. All of them were initiated by the Republicans. The last 
major one in 2018 cost our country $3 billion in lost economic 
activity.
  Now, Speaker McCarthy has the country on a collision course with 
another one. Even the Senate Republicans have a bipartisan bill to help 
prevent a shutdown, but Speaker McCarthy will not even consider it.
  This shutdown will stop paychecks for millions of Americans. It will 
stop law enforcement from preventing fentanyl from entering our 
communities, and it will make our borders weaker.
  I do not know what the Republicans think that they will win with a 
government shutdown, but I do know that it is American people who will 
lose, and voters will remember this action in the future.

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