[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 14903]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        GOP GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN

  (Mr. KILDEE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. KILDEE. Mr. Speaker, almost unbelievably here we are just 2 days 
away from another GOP government shutdown. Republicans, who control 
both Houses of Congress, have yet to bring a budget agreement, just a 
couple of days before the government shuts down, that would keep 
government open. Democrats stand ready to negotiate, to talk, to come 
up with an agreement that can move this country forward, that can keep 
government open, at the very least.
  We just can't afford another government shutdown. The last time this 
happened, it cost the economy billions of dollars and people lost their 
jobs. Shutting this government down, allowing the government to be shut 
down over a partisan ideological point, is reckless, and it ought to be 
avoided at all costs.
  You don't have to look very far in the headlines to see that the 
Republican Conference is in some disarray. I understand that. The 
politics of that are just going to have to work themselves out.
  Meanwhile, the business of the American people has to be attended to. 
We have got to get this country back to work. If we don't do that, we 
will not be doing the jobs that people sent us here to do.

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