Bill Pascrell: “This habit of short-term funding extensions and kicking the can down the road--I heard that a few times--are…”

“This habit of short-term funding extensions and kicking the can down the road--I heard that a few times--are irresponsible and have to stop. We need a long-term funding bill. Democrats have come to the table and offered bipartisan solutions. Republicans have dismissed them. Let's put a bill to help the DREAMers on the floor. This leadership is acting out of fear, and their intransigence and incompetence is going to lead to a shutdown. Instead of using 9 million kids as a bargaining chip, I bet the majority could pass a permanent children's health extension today. There are 9 million children at risk of losing health coverage, 200,000 of them in my home State of New Jersey, and we could save $6 billion. I cannot believe that this bill has an unpaid-for delay of the medical device tax, Mr. Speaker. That was part of the Affordable Care Act. That industry agreed to pay that tax. We just did a tax bill for corporations that added over $2 trillion in deficit. Last I checked, medical device companies are corporations. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentleman has expired.”