[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 10]
[House]
[Pages 15270-15271]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN

  (Mr. GEORGE MILLER of California asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GEORGE MILLER of California. Mr. Speaker, Members of the House, 
this last week must have been quite a civics lesson for the members of 
the Tea Party who thought that they could shut down the government--
and, in fact, shut down the government--and nobody would miss it. But 
soon they discovered that there were serious problems with that.
  Now we see one bill after another: to restore the NIH because they 
found they stranded cancer patients and other people in need of their 
health; to restore the WIC program because they found out that the 
newest born infants in this country would be without nutrition, the 
veterans programs because they found out our veterans would be 
stranded, the assistance to go to school would be cut off.

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  Our national parks, they never thought those communities would be 
impacted by the national parks. They didn't care about that. They shut 
them down. But they were here asking for relief.
  They found they needed the weather service as the hurricane was 
approaching our Gulf States. They needed FEMA. They needed someone to 
organize the evacuation routes in case it became a full-blown 
hurricane.
  The CIA, they discovered they laid off 70 percent of the assets 
within the CIA. This goes on and on and on and on.
  Welcome to America, a big, diverse Nation where we all need one 
another at one time or another.

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