[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 14331]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        STOP GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN

  (Mrs. LAWRENCE asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mrs. LAWRENCE. Mr. Speaker, I stand before you today outraged and 
disappointed. Once again, petty partisan politics is threatening to 
derail government funding and shut down critical services to hard-
working, deserving Americans.
  Later today, I will be hosting a forum with the media, talking about 
how women are treated and misrepresented in the media; and here, we 
have an issue that has a direct impact on women being used as a pawn to 
shut down our government. The only group that is portrayed more 
negatively--and we all hear it--is our own Congress.
  We must act now to change how we are portrayed and how America views 
us. We must work together and stop another wasteful and harmful 
government shutdown. We are better than this.
  Congress, my colleagues, let's work together and keep our government 
working.

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