[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 15092]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         OPEN UP THE GOVERNMENT

  (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, the public has been witness to extraordinary 
divisiveness between the Republicans and Democrats in this House. But I 
think it's important that the public bear in mind that we have a law 
that was passed, passed substantially in the House and the Senate--
granted, it was primarily by Democrats, of course. But it was signed by 
the President. And then we had a Presidential election. A major issue 
was the Affordable Care Act. That's why it was called ObamaCare. And 
President Obama won by 5 million votes, Mr. Speaker.
  Now, Mr. Speaker, the issue is the funding of the Federal Government. 
Virtually all the Democrats voted to fund the government. Virtually all 
of the other side, Mr. Speaker, voted not to.
  So now, for the Republican majority to come up and try to open up 
different agencies, suggesting that we don't want to do that--they're 
the ones that closed them, Mr. Speaker. We're the ones that voted to 
keep them open. What we want to do is to open up the government. And if 
we do it in bits and pieces, we create more dissension within the 
Federal workforce. We shouldn't do that. The American public deserves 
better from us.

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