[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 2]
[Senate]
[Page 2592]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY FUNDING

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, the essential Department of Homeland 
Security faces a shutdown in less than 48 hours. At 12:01 a.m. Saturday 
morning the government will be forced to shut down the most essential 
part of our government set up to protect the homeland.
  It is really unthinkable that America is less than 2 days away from 
letting its guard down in the midst of such rampant global terrorism. 
Yesterday, three Brooklyn men were arrested for joining ISIS. FBI 
Director Comey said yesterday that his agency is investigating 
suspected ISIS supporters in every State--all 50 States.
  As Republican Congressman Peter King said:

       We can't allow DHS not [to] be funded. People think we're 
     crazy. There are terrorist attacks all over the world, and 
     we're talking about closing down Homeland Security.

  And listen to this sentence:

       This is like living in the world of the crazy people.

  Republican Congressman Peter King of New York has said that what is 
going on with the work of the Republicans here in the Senate and the 
House is like living in the world of crazy people.
  Yesterday the Senate voted to begin the process of considering 
passing a clean Homeland Security funding bill. Without an agreement to 
speed up the process, a vote on final passage would take place on 
Sunday. As I said yesterday, we on this side of the aisle are willing 
to expedite passage of this bill by consent. We are ready to do it 
right now.
  Once a clean full-year funding bill for the Department of Homeland 
Security is passed and signed into law, we look forward to debating how 
to best fix our Nation's broken immigration system, just as we did 20 
months ago with the help of the Presiding Officer and others.
  Would the Chair announce the business of the day.

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