[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 2]
[House]
[Page 2895]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              DHS SHUTDOWN

  (Ms. SCHAKOWSKY asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Ms. SCHAKOWSKY. Mr. Speaker, once again, the Republicans have brought 
us to the brink of a government shutdown, this time, the Department of 
Homeland Security.
  For weeks, the Department specifically designed to keep America and 
Americans safe has been forced to spend time and resources making plans 
to lay off 30,000 workers and stop paychecks for hundreds of thousands 
of critical workers like the Coast Guard and Border Patrol agents and 
TSA at the airports.
  Why are they on this dangerous mission? So they can continue their 
futile and cruel war against immigrant children and families.
  Now I hear they will try to put the Department of Homeland Security 
back in limbo for another 3 weeks while they figure out some other 
mischief. This is reckless. This is irresponsible and dangerous.
  Shame on the Republicans for doing this. Stop it. Just pass a clean 
bill for a continuous funding of the Department of Homeland Security.

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