[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 14565]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN

  (Ms. SCHAKOWSKY asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Ms. SCHAKOWSKY. Mr. Speaker, we stand here today on the brink of a 
threatened shutdown of the Federal Government--bad enough--and worse, a 
refusal to pay the bills of the United States of America. These are 
completely unnecessary, Republican-manufactured crises.
  Hal Rogers, the chairman of the Appropriations Committee, said:

       A government shutdown is a political game in which everyone 
     loses.

  Karl Rove said:

       A shutdown now would have much worse fallout than in 1995. 
     It is an ill-conceived tactic, and Republicans should reject 
     it.

  In a moment of clarity, Senator Mike Lee, one of the Senators holding 
up the bill in the Senate, said:

       Shutdowns are bad; shutdowns are not worth it. This law, 
     ObamaCare, is not worth causing a shutdown over.

  This is former-Senator Judd Gregg:

       A default would lead to some level of chaos in the debt 
     markets, which would lead to a significant contraction in 
     economic activity, which would lead to job losses, which 
     would lead to higher spending by the Federal Government and 
     lower tax revenues, which would lead to more debt.

  Perhaps most important to my Republican colleagues, this is from The 
Wall Street Journal:

       Some Republicans think they are sure to hold the House in 
     2014. The Kamikazes could end up ensuring the return of an 
     all-Democratic rule.

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