[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 15175]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           VOTE ON A CLEAN CR

  (Mr. COURTNEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. COURTNEY. Mr. Speaker, the worst-kept secret in Washington, DC, 
is there is a majority in this House to pass a clean CR. In fact, this 
morning, a list of 21 House Republican Members who said they would vote 
for a clean CR was published. It would end this idiotic shutdown that 
is keeping 800,000 Federal employees from doing their job.
  Unfortunately, a few minutes ago, the official Speaker announced that 
he is not going to listen to the will of this House. Instead, we're 
going to do these salami-sliced spending bills. And, incredibly, we're 
going on recess on tomorrow through Monday night.
  Well, Monday morning in Stratford, Connecticut, thousands of defense 
workers at Sikorsky Aircraft are not going to be able to go to work 
because the contract compliance officers from the Department of Defense 
who haven't been on the job for the last week can't certify the 
helicopter parts and engines that allow them to do their work.
  Those layoffs are on this Speaker's head. Those layoffs are on the 
majority party's head.
  Allow the majority of this House to have a vote. There are 21 of your 
colleagues that are prepared to do it today, and the President would 
sign it tonight. Those workers could go to work on Monday and protect 
the warfighters of this country.

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