On the recordOctober 2, 2013
Give us back our government. I am on the Appropriations Committee. We shouldn't be talking about CRs; we should be talking about passing appropriations bills. But those were stopped, and we are now down to the emergency tool that we have had to use over and over again to continue government operations. I have been here 20 years. We have done CRs many times. We have never, ever had a pre-condition to a CR. People are not entitled to make up facts here. The facts are that the Senate is negotiating and the House Democrats are negotiating. We came up with your numbers. We hate those numbers, but we swallowed them. There is only one thing to do--reject this proposition. Vote ``no'' on the rule and vote ``no'' on the ability to bring the rule up. We have a bill here. It is in the House right now. It is the Senate version. It is clean. Send it to the President and before tonight it is all over and people can come back to work tomorrow--tomorrow. So stop this game playing, this selfishness, this poor loser and this whining and just get on with doing the business you were elected to do.
