[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 10]
[House]
[Pages 15071-15072]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                     NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH

  (Mrs. ELLMERS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. ELLMERS. Mr. Speaker, we are granted the power of the purse 
strings here in Congress, so we are right and reasonable by using that 
power.
  Yesterday, the House led and acted responsibly by providing yet 
another plan to get parts of this government back open again:
  We provided funding to the NIH, which provides essential lifesaving 
treatments and research to families who have received the worst news 
possible--that their family member, their child, may have pediatric 
cancer that

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needs a cure. And I urge the Senate and the majority leader, Harry 
Reid, to bring this up for a vote in the Senate immediately.
  We provided funding to the District of Columbia, which is part of our 
stewardship.
  Today, we will once again vote to keep the promises to our veterans, 
and we will vote for the funding for National Guard and Reservists. 
These are all issues that we all agree on, depending on where you are 
sitting, Republican or Democrat.
  The right thing in this situation is to provide funding and reopen 
the government. It's time for us to act.

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