Steve Lynch: “I view this latest threat to default on our debt as a direct attack on the American people and on our government itself.”

We want to bring that home.

the repeated drumbeat of fatalities is totally unacceptable.

Mr. Speaker, I rise this morning on behalf of our friend and colleague Gerry Connolly, the gentleman from Virginia, with the hope of infusing this debate with his passion and wisdom on behalf of the Federal workers for whom there was no…

Mr. Speaker, let's take up that challenge. Let's make sure the laws that we have passed in this House apply and are complied with in Washington, D.C. The gentleman may forget, this isn't the first debate we have had about Washington, D.C…