[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 15823]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                  CONGRESS MUST ACT TO AVOID A DEFAULT

  (Mr. GALLEGO asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. GALLEGO. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in full support of President 
Obama's announcement on Friday that he will not negotiate with the 
Republican Congress over raising the debt limit.
  This is the right decision because there is nothing to negotiate. 
There is only one simple path forward: to pass a clean debt limit 
extension that protects our Nation's full faith and credit.
  Unfortunately, last week the majority leader and the presumptive next 
Speaker of the House went on national television and committed to fight 
to the end to defund the ACA and the President's immigration executive 
actions while trying to stop the debt limit increase. I fear--as we all 
should--what this might mean.
  Are he and the House Republicans going to threaten to shut down the 
government to pursue this extreme agenda? Are they going to hold our 
Nation's full faith and credit hostage?
  Mr. Speaker, for 5 years now, House Republicans have hurtled the 
Congress and the country from one manufactured crisis to another. This 
must stop and must stop now. With only 30 days left before we hit the 
debt limit, the Republican Congress should act immediately to take the 
prospect of a catastrophic default off the table.

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