[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 10]
[House]
[Pages 14866-14867]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                     TIME FOR THE SENATE TO RESPOND

  (Mr. STUTZMAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. STUTZMAN. Mr. Speaker, it seems that only the American people can 
drag Harry Reid to the negotiating table. Back home, Hoosiers already 
know that Washington is fiscally broke; but today, after the Senate 
pushed this country into a shutdown, they also know that Congress is 
broken.
  The House has sent Harry Reid and Senate Democrats four separate 
proposals to keep the government open, yet Senate Democrats have 
rejected each one of them without offering a single counterproposal. 
It's clear that President Obama and Harry Reid would rather shut the 
government down than even discuss the real-world consequences of 
ObamaCare.
  The American people don't want the government to shut down and they 
don't want Washington to saddle them with ObamaCare's tax hikes, job 
losses,

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and higher premiums. My colleagues in the House have listened and 
acted. It's time for the Senate to respond.
  I'm hopeful that the American people will continue to make their 
voices heard in Washington. It's time for Senate Democrats to end their 
politically motivated obstructionism. It's time for Senator Reid and 
President Obama to come to the table and talk.

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