Dana Rohrabacher: “the American people have car insurance, they have home insurance, they have life insurance. Now what we are offering…”

“the American people have car insurance, they have home insurance, they have life insurance. Now what we are offering them in this amendment is insurance against government shutdown, government shutdown insurance. This will prevent excessive politics from disrupting the lives of the citizens of the United States of America. It protects our people, our retirees, every American, when we come into disagreement for whatever the motive. Two years ago we were new here in our roles. We had a majority of Republicans in the House and the Senate, we had a President who was a Democrat, we were getting used to our roles. Who suffered because of that while we were getting used to what we were supposed to do? The American people when the government was shut down for 28 days. There is no finger pointing in that. If we come to some major disagreements because of a difference in philosophy in the future, let us provide a way out so our people will not be hurt while we make up our minds. We have the opportunity to prevent disagreement from hurting our people, from philosophical or political differences. I say let us protect our people, let us give them Gekas insurance.”