David Minge: “we have been treated to an exercise in petty brinkmanship in this institution. It ill becomes the Congress of the United…”

“we have been treated to an exercise in petty brinkmanship in this institution. It ill becomes the Congress of the United States of America and certainly has disappointed and embarrassed all of the residents of our great Nation. Mr. Speaker, in visiting with county commissioners in my home State, I certainly have become aware that they are keenly embarrassed. They say that if any county government had to shut its doors because the county commissioners could not agree on a budget, that they essentially would be forced to resign by the public pressure in that community. What are we doing? We are sitting here in Washington. We are not resolving this problem. Instead we are engaging in party bickering, and we have one side that is refusing to let the other side even vote on a resolution to put the Government back to work. Instead we are bouncing continuing resolutions back and forth between the House and the Senate. Let us get together, let us pass the resolution that was introduced on the Senate side and put America back to work.”