[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 2]
[House]
[Page 2305]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       FACTS ARE STUBBORN THINGS

  (Mr. McCLINTOCK asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. McCLINTOCK. Mr. Speaker, as we count down the days to the 
shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security, a parade of Democrats 
has appeared on the floor to accuse Republicans of blocking funding.
  Have they completely forgotten that the House passed a bill to fully 
fund the Homeland Security Department back on January 14--31 days ago?
  Every House Democrat save two opposed that funding, and, for 31 days, 
Senate Democrats have blocked it from even being considered.
  The fact is that Democrats are willing to block funding for Homeland 
Security unless they can fund amnesty for millions of illegal aliens. 
According to a recent ABC-Washington Post poll, the American people 
want to stop the President's amnesty orders by a whopping 56-41 
percent. Nine Senate Democrats have told their constituents they do, 
too, but they won't.
  Those are the facts.
  And, as John Adams said, facts are stubborn things.

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