[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 14572]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      REPUBLICAN CALENDAR OF CHAOS

  (Mr. ISRAEL asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ISRAEL. Madam Speaker, House Republicans are giving us a fall 
calendar of chaos. We have 5 legislative days before they shut the 
government down.
  Madam Speaker, this is a bad rerun of bad policy. Two years ago, 
people said they would never shut it down, and they did it. When they 
shut it down, it cost the economy $24 billion, and 120,000 jobs were 
lost; and they are going to do it again in 5 days.
  That is not the only deadline, Madam Speaker, in this calendar of 
chaos. They have missed a deadline for the highway trust fund, costing 
more jobs. We are careening towards another fiscal cliff with the debt 
ceiling. They missed the deadline for the Export-Import Bank, which 
cost a bunch of jobs, 500 lost jobs, as a result of this calendar of 
chaos.
  And there is more. Madam Speaker, the American people, everyday 
Americans, do not deserve this Republican calendar of chaos.

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