[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 15498]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         CONTINUING RESOLUTION

  (Ms. JACKSON LEE asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Ms. JACKSON LEE. Mr. Speaker, as a responsible Member of Congress 
concerned for the American people, today I voted for a continuing 
resolution that will take us to December 11, but that is not the 
responsible way to handle the business of this Nation.
  It is time now for this Congress to put aside partisanship and to 
begin to have the Republican leadership and Republicans to sit down 
with members of the Democratic Caucus and talk about a real funding 
bill.
  Yes, we have kept the doors open and provided for our employees, but 
we have undermined defense and the preparedness of our men and women. 
We have cut $1.7 billion from the Children's Health Insurance Program, 
and we are barely hanging on for other necessary items.
  Yes, we have allowed for wildfire funding and disaster funding. Other 
items dealing with law enforcement and provisions for transportation 
and the environment are all cut by something called the sequester.
  Mr. Speaker, the American people deserve better, and we need to get 
busy starting next week and put forward an appropriations process that 
funds this government, responds to those who are in need, prepares our 
young men and women in the military, and as well restores that 
children's health insurance money. Shame on us. We need to do it now.

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