On the recordOctober 8, 2013
I yield myself the balance of my time. Mr. Speaker, we have heard here today what we have heard in the last several days from the other side--that they will not vote for any of these individual bills because we are not bringing the entire continuing resolution before the House. But let me point out: with this bill--the 10th in this series that we brought out in a so-called piecemeal fashion--it will take us to about a third of the CR, the original continuing resolution. So we are passing the continuing resolution one piece at a time, but nevertheless we are passing a continuing resolution. To say that I am not going to vote for this bill because you don't have all of the bills before us doesn't have much logic to it. It means that every bill that comes before the House could be argued the same way: I won't vote for that bill because it doesn't fund whatever or enact whatever piece of legislation that is waiting in the wings. Now, Mr. Speaker, this is about Head Start. It is not about health care; it is not about procedure; it is not about whether or not this is piecemeal or full, or what have you. It is about Head Start. If you believe in the Head Start program and the hundreds of thousands of young children in this country--and families--that are depending on this program, it seems to me you would lay everything else aside and vote for that program, which I am asking our Members to do as I close. I yield back the balance of my time.
