[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 10]
[House]
[Pages 14621-14622]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       COMPROMISE, NOT A SHUTDOWN

  (Mrs. BEATTY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. BEATTY. Mr. Speaker, Congress is faced with much unfinished 
business--a budget that needs to be passed, a sequester that needs to 
be repealed, and a debt limit that needs to be lifted.
  I remind my Republican colleagues that citizens want us united. They 
want compromise, not to be shut down.
  If the United States defaults on its debt, the results could be 
devastating. A default could mean 3.4 million veterans not receiving 
disability benefits; drug reimbursements for Medicare could stop; and 
in the first week, 10

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million Americans would not receive their Social Security--but in these 
frightening times, all hope is not lost.
  John Hogan, founder of TeenForce, which is an enterprise dedicated to 
solving the youth employment crisis in America, recently received the 
White House Champions of Change award--from the President of these 
United States--for contributions to the administration's Youth Jobs 
program.
  John and his family are here today. Let John and other ``champions of 
change'' serve as an example to us all--that in hard times, if we work 
together, if we compromise, we can make a difference.

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