[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 2]
[House]
[Page 2665]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              DHS SHUTDOWN

  (Mr. COSTA asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. COSTA. Mr. Speaker, we have less than 2 days--2 days--to fund the 
Department of Homeland Security before they run out of money. It is a 
dangerous world we live in. We know that. The tragic events recently in 
Paris and Copenhagen and, most recently, the arrests of three alleged 
terrorists yesterday in New York demonstrate that Americans are at risk 
from a terrorist attack every day. The Senate finally realized that 
funding Homeland Security is more important than jeopardizing the 
safety of our country.
  Mr. Speaker, if you need Democratic support to pass a clean--clean--
Department of Homeland Security funding bill, you have my vote, and you 
have the overwhelming votes of the majority of Democrats.
  Congress should be focusing on protecting our families. Our 
constitutional oath that we take when we are sworn into office every 2 
years requires us to first ``support and defend the Constitution of the 
United States against all enemies foreign and domestic.''
  Let us not put Americans at risk because of partisan politics. It is 
not only irresponsible, it is immoral. Let us do the job that we were 
sent here to do.

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