Continuing Resolution

Floor Speech

Mr. BERA of California. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to condemn yet another manufactured crisis that House leadership has created. Americans are sick and tired of the fighting and of having their economic security put on the line repeatedly.

Instead of doing their jobs and serving the people, House leadership is holding the American people hostage to partisan politics and taking us down a path to a government shutdown. That means our military serving overseas would have to work without pay while they're sacrificing for us. Their families are going to struggle. It means benefits to our veterans, who are already struggling to get benefits and enduring a backlog, are going to have to wait longer for those benefits. It means Americans who count on Social Security, a program that they paid into their whole life, may not be able to get their payments.

This is absolutely shameful, Mr. Speaker. The clock is ticking. We've got 11 days. Let's do what is right and begin to work on a real budget--a budget that creates jobs, that secures a strong middle class and starts to reduce our debt and the burden on the next generation.

Eleven days, Mr. Speaker.

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