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




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                          GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN

  (Mr. VEASEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. VEASEY. Mr. Speaker, we are faced with the threat of a government 
shutdown on Tuesday due to the Republican Party/Tea Party extremists' 
inability to compromise and pass a spending bill for fiscal year 2014.
  Once again, we've been pushed to the brink of a government shutdown 
by fringe Tea Party members whose only goal seems to be to deny 
hardworking taxpayers the right to insurance.
  While the Republican-led House has voted 42 times to sabotage 
uninsured Americans gaining health care coverage, not once have they 
allowed a vote to repeal and replace the sequester. Over 400 
hardworking taxpayers in Fort Worth, Texas, have lost their jobs at 
Bell Helicopter due to the sequester. To make matters worse, once again 
Republicans are placing the livelihoods of American families at risk by 
threatening to furlough government employees. The bottom line here is 
that Congress has a lot of work to do this weekend and in the weeks and 
months to follow.
  This is the work that we as Members of Congress were elected to do. I 
take this responsibility very seriously and expect my colleagues to as 
well.

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