[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 15618]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        THAT WOULD BE LEADERSHIP

  (Mr. THOMPSON of Pennsylvania asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. THOMPSON of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, I am appreciative of the 
57 Democrats in the House who have consistently voted with Republicans 
to pass targeted appropriation bills to fund the Federal Government. I 
am disappointed that so many House Democrats have cast votes to support 
a continued shutdown.
  Last night, the gentlewoman from Washington, D.C., Delegate Eleanor 
Holmes Norton, a Democrat, confronted President Obama over the 
District's budget in a White House meeting with the House Democratic 
conference. Ms. Holmes Norton argued for Senate Democrats and President 
Obama to pass and sign the bill she supported with Republicans to 
permit the District of Columbia to utilize tax revenue it collects to 
fund municipal services during this shutdown.
  Mr. Speaker, the gentlewoman from the District of Columbia is 
correct. It is long past time for the Senate leader to take up H.J. 
Res. 71 and all of the other bipartisan targeted appropriation bills 
that have been passed out of the House. By rolling the 11 House-passed 
bills into one, more than half of the partial government shutdown would 
be over. The American people deserve as much.

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