DHS Shutdown

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Ms. MAXINE WATERS of California. Mr. Speaker, there are only 3 days
until the Department of Homeland Security shuts down, forcing more than
50,000 TSA airport security screeners and tens of thousands of Customs
and Border Protection officers to work without pay. Many of these
dedicated public servants work at Los Angeles International Airport,
LAX, which is in my congressional district. They screen the passengers
and examine the cargo to keep the airports secure.

LAX is the sixth busiest airport in the world and third busiest in
the United States. In 2013, LAX served more than 66 million passengers
and processed more than 1.9 million tons of cargo with a value of over
$91.6 billion.

The security of LAX is critical for the people of Los Angeles and the
entire country, and the public servants who work hard every day to keep
our airports safe deserve to be paid for the work that they do. Let's
fund DHS now.

I ask unanimous consent that the House bring up H.R. 861, the clean
Department of Homeland Security funding bill that would keep the
Department open so it can carry out its mission of keeping the American
people safe.

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