[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 15348]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                END THE REPUBLICAN SHUTDOWN IMMEDIATELY

  (Mrs. LOWEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. LOWEY. Mr. Speaker, I rise to call once again for this House to 
end this shutdown now by passing the Senate-passed bill that the 
President will sign to reopen the government.
  Speaker John Boehner refuses to bring up this bill. This weekend, he 
claimed it doesn't have the votes to pass. While I am no mathematician, 
basic math shows that the Senate-passed bill to end the shutdown would 
pass the House; 217 votes are needed for a bill to pass.
  Look at these numbers. With the votes of 198 Democrats and the 23 
Republicans who have said publicly that they would support the bill, 
the bill would pass with 221 votes.
  Mr. Speaker, bring up the bill to end the Republican shutdown 
immediately.

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