[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 14799]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN

  (Mr. MORAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MORAN. Mr. Speaker, so it's after 1 a.m. on October 1 and the 
government has shut down. And what's the best that we could get from 
the House Republican majority? A proposal to invite conferees to sit 
down and talk about resolving our differences.
  The fact is that we've known what our responsibility was--it is to 
fund the government. It's not to allow 800,000 Federal employees to be 
told they can't go into work, they can't get paid. It's not to close 
down our national parks and monuments. It's not to take hundreds of 
millions--potentially billions--of dollars out of our economy 
needlessly. It's not to disrupt the stock markets. It's not to create 
these financial crises. These are crises of our own doing.
  We've got a great country, a strong economy, a terrific society, and 
all we can do is to erode trust and confidence in our government. We 
should be ashamed of ourselves.

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