DHS Shutdown

Floor Speech

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Mr. COSTA. Mr. Speaker, we have less than 2 days--2 days--to fund the Department of Homeland Security before they run out of money. It is a dangerous world we live in. We know that. The tragic events recently in Paris and Copenhagen and, most recently, the arrests of three alleged terrorists yesterday in New York demonstrate that Americans are at risk from a terrorist attack every day. The Senate finally realized that funding Homeland Security is more important than jeopardizing the safety of our country.

Mr. Speaker, if you need Democratic support to pass a clean--clean--Department of Homeland Security funding bill, you have my vote, and you have the overwhelming votes of the majority of Democrats.

Congress should be focusing on protecting our families. Our constitutional oath that we take when we are sworn into office every 2 years requires us to first ``support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies foreign and domestic.''

Let us not put Americans at risk because of partisan politics. It is not only irresponsible, it is immoral. Let us do the job that we were sent here to do.

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