Political Quotes

“Every day I have said during this shutdown, let our people go back to work. This resolution that we have before us is going to do that. It is not the answer to the entire situation of the shutdown, but it is a major and very important first step. Some 760,000 Federal employees throughout the country, whether they are working or not working, whether they are accepted or not accepted, have not been receiving a salary. Like all of us, they have mortgages, rent, utilities, tuition, other living expenses that they have to pay and the check has not come in. This measure is going to do that. It is not only going to pay them, it is going to let them go back to work, because we do not believe that anybody who works for the Federal Government is not essential. They are there because they are essential. This is going to have targeted appropriations; targeted appropriations for the elderly, for the children, for child support enforcement, passports and visas, for administration of unemployment offices, for museums and parks, a long litany of the emergency situations where we do need to have funding.”