[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 15211]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN

  (Ms. SHEA-PORTER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Ms. SHEA-PORTER. Madam Speaker, it's very clear to The Wall Street 
Journal, it's clear to the Chamber of Commerce, it's clear to USA 
Today, and it's clear to the American public that the Republican right 
wing, the Tea Party, has shut down the government.
  Now I find out that we're going home. Speaker Boehner has decided 
that Congress will go home tomorrow. How can we possibly go home? There 
are people who are not being paid, people here who are not being paid. 
The police were not paid that work here every day. Across this country, 
people are not receiving what they paid for, and we're going home. I'm 
embarrassed about this.
  We should stay here. If they can't agree to accept the fact that they 
lost the vote on the health care law again and again, if they can't 
agree to that, can they at least agree to work on jobs? There's plenty 
of work to do in this country, and we have no right to go home until we 
get this job done.

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