[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 14453]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN

  (Mrs. DAVIS of California asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute.)
  Mrs. DAVIS of California. Mr. Speaker, if it is September, it must 
mean another shutdown on the horizon. The same small band within the 
House majority is demanding another shutdown of the Federal Government.
  Mr. Speaker, we have seen this movie before. In the mid-1990s, 
conservatives shut down the Federal Government, demanding cuts to 
Medicare, threatening the healthcare security of seniors.
  Just 2 years ago, the government was shut down as conservatives 
demanded an end to the Affordable Care Act, threatening the healthcare 
security of millions of Americans. This time, the demand is to end 
funding for Planned Parenthood, threatening the healthcare security of 
millions of women, many of them low income.
  A recent poll showed that more than 7 out of 10 Americans want 
Congress to do its job and reach a budget agreement, but like a bad 
horror movie franchise, the GOP keeps turning out shutdown sequel after 
shutdown sequel.
  Guess what--the American people don't get to walk out on this sequel. 
They have to sit and suffer through it.

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