[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 2]
[House]
[Page 2896]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              DHS SHUTDOWN

  (Ms. LINDA T. SANCHEZ of California asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute.)
  Ms. LINDA T. SANCHEZ of California. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to call 
out my Republican colleagues for abandoning their duty to govern and 
protect our national security.
  We are just hours away from asking 200,000 DHS employees who protect 
our country to go without pay because Republicans can't get their act 
together. A DHS shutdown doesn't protect us from national security 
threats, and it certainly doesn't solve our disagreements over 
immigration policy. This is nothing more than a tantrum, but even my 5-
year-old son knows that tantrums are a waste of time.
  It is time to grow up and govern. Will you listen to the extremists 
in your party who are focused on obstruction of progress, or will you 
listen to the majority of Americans who want us to fund DHS, want us to 
act on comprehensive immigration reform, and want us to govern like 
adults?
  I urge my colleagues to pass a clean DHS funding bill.

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