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Day Twelve

Floor Speech

By: Ami Bera
By: Ami Bera
Date: Oct. 12, 2013
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Government Operations Government Budget and Spending

Mr. BERA of California. Day No. 12--Mr. Speaker, today is the 12th day of a government shutdown and 1 day closer to defaulting on our debt. In the history of our great Nation, we have never failed to pay our bills. We are Americans. We always pay our bills.

Mr. Speaker, enough with the gamesmanship, the finger-pointing, the name-calling. It is time to get back to business. We can do it in three easy steps.

Step one: let's open the government.

Step two: let's pay our bills.

And step three: let's negotiate a real budget that begins to rebuild jobs and an economy that rebuilds middle class America.

Mr. Speaker, everyone wins--especially the American people.


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