Further Continuing Appropriations and Disaster Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2025

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Mr. LAWLER. Mr. Speaker, we are approaching Christmas and Hanukkah, and Americans all across this country care about this debate. They care about the specifics, but what they won't understand is when you vote ``no'' to continue funding the government to provide the services that they rely on.

This is a clean CR. If you don't like it because it doesn't have a whole list of ornaments on the Christmas tree, I am sorry, but the fact is that we are keeping the government funded.

By the way, I would remind my Democratic colleagues, we could actually do our appropriations work if my senior Senator from New York passed a single, solitary appropriations bill on the Senate floor. He passed exactly zero. The fact is, we have to keep the government funded. That is our responsibility.

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Mr. LAWLER. Mr. Speaker, we have to keep the government funded. Live to fight another day.

The fact is that we are not shutting the government down before Christmas. I think everyone here has a responsibility to keep the government open and funded, and it requires a ``yes'' vote on this CR. It requires a ``yes'' vote on disaster relief. It requires a ``yes'' vote on providing our farmers the support that they need to put food on the table for the American people.

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