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Celia Israel: “House Republicans are giving us a fall calendar of chaos. We have 5 legislative days before they shut the government…”

On the recordSeptember 18, 2015
House Republicans are giving us a fall calendar of chaos. We have 5 legislative days before they shut the government down. Madam Speaker, this is a bad rerun of bad policy. Two years ago, people said they would never shut it down, and they did it. When they shut it down, it cost the economy $24 billion, and 120,000 jobs were lost; and they are going to do it again in 5 days. That is not the only deadline, Madam Speaker, in this calendar of chaos. They have missed a deadline for the highway trust fund, costing more jobs. We are careening towards another fiscal cliff with the debt ceiling. They missed the deadline for the Export-Import Bank, which cost a bunch of jobs, 500 lost jobs, as a result of this calendar of chaos. And there is more. Madam Speaker, the American people, everyday Americans, do not deserve this Republican calendar of chaos. ____________________
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Sep 18, 2015

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