[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 3251]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              FUNDING DHS

  (Mr. CARTWRIGHT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. CARTWRIGHT. Mr. Speaker, I rise with some relief to note that 
yesterday we did come together to fully fund the Department of Homeland 
Security. A number of us came together and ignored the extremist 
shutdown crowd and did the responsible thing and funded this 
Department.
  I regret that the Department had to spend millions of dollars to 
prepare for a shutdown that it anticipated having to go through. 
Nevertheless, this is a Department that protects our Nation at a time 
when ISIL is executing journalists and aid workers and Christians and 
Muslims, when al Shabaab is threatening our Nation's biggest shopping 
mall. We need the Department of Homeland Security. And I say, Bully.
  Let us continue to do the responsible thing and fund our departments, 
including the Department of Homeland Security.

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