[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 2]
[House]
[Page 2398]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          FUND DHS IMMEDIATELY

  (Mr. KILDEE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. KILDEE. Mr. Speaker, well, there are only 4 days left until the 
Department of Homeland Security shuts down, so I urge all my GOP 
colleagues to please take up a clean funding bill for the Department of 
Homeland Security and take away the threat of another government 
shutdown. Take that threat off the table.
  If you won't listen to us on the Democratic side of the aisle, listen 
to some of your own colleagues. Listen to Senator Ron Johnson who said: 
``The political impasse on DHS funding must end.''
  Or listen to Representative Mike McCaul, who is chairman of the House 
Committee on Homeland Security. He said: ``We should not be playing 
politics with the national security agency like DHS, particularly given 
the high threat environment we're in right now.''
  Let's stop the gamesmanship. Let's get back to governing the way the 
American people want us to. Bring a clean DHS funding bill to the 
floor.

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