[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 5102]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




             DEMOCRATS' ATTEMPT TO SHUT DOWN THE GOVERNMENT

  (Mr. BROUN of Georgia asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. BROUN of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to again condemn my 
Democratic colleagues' attempts to shut down the Federal Government. 
Even with total control of spending, Democrats failed to pass a budget 
last year. In the meantime, we have been operating on short-term 
spending bills only so that they can use their ace in the hole now, the 
government shutdown card. This has been their game plan all along, to 
attempt to divide the Republican Party, back us into a corner, and to 
shut down the government for their own political purposes.
  Mr. Speaker, our Democratic counterparts are gambling with the future 
of this Nation, and it's a bet I'm not willing to take. I implore my 
colleagues to pass a long-term bill that protects seniors, protects 
veterans, and funds our troops so we can move on to next year's budget 
and work to get it right this time.

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