[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 15886]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN

  (Mr. LaMALFA asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LaMALFA. Mr. Speaker, over the weekend, many of us were still 
stuck in Washington, waiting for a resolution, but one of the 
highlights was the opportunity to be with our veterans as we helped 
them to gain entrance to their national monuments, their memorials, 
here in Washington, D.C. It is just sad that they even have to wonder 
if they are breaking the law or need assistance to get into open air 
monuments and memorials that are theirs.
  It is even sadder to hear the rhetoric on this floor today that all 
that would be boiled down and impugned to one guy at random bringing a 
flag that some people don't like.
  Why don't we talk about those veterans and the great service they 
have made for this country and about the meanness of the Park Service's 
arbitrarily renting barriers to shut them out. Why aren't we talking 
about that as much? This shutdown situation is made much worse by the 
attitude of those in the White House--by exerting pain on people, by 
shutting down the things they do care about in order to play this 
political game.
  So this isn't a Republican House shutdown. This is a U.S. Senate 
shutdown as we have sent, time after time, bill after bill over there. 
Let's get together and get this done right for the people in 
California, including for the students I met with from Lyman Gilmore 
Middle School, who are here with us today.

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