[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 11]
[House]
[Pages 15780-15781]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                               DAY TWELVE

  (Mr. BERA of California asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. BERA of California. Day No. 12--Mr. Speaker, today is the 12th 
day of a government shutdown and 1 day closer to defaulting on our 
debt. In the history of our great Nation, we have never

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failed to pay our bills. We are Americans. We always pay our bills.
  Mr. Speaker, enough with the gamesmanship, the finger-pointing, the 
name-calling. It is time to get back to business. We can do it in three 
easy steps.
  Step one: let's open the government.
  Step two: let's pay our bills.
  And step three: let's negotiate a real budget that begins to rebuild 
jobs and an economy that rebuilds middle class America.
  Mr. Speaker, everyone wins--especially the American people.

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