Jerry Nadler: “I am glad that this is before us. I wish we had a full continuing resolution so that the President and the Speaker and…”

“I am glad that this is before us. I wish we had a full continuing resolution so that the President and the Speaker and the majority leader and minority leader could have their negotiations and come up with a balanced budget in 7 years with CBO, which everybody has agreed to, while the Government continued doing its functions. But, no, we are only doing this through this continuing resolution for certain activities which are more important than others. Well, the Republican Party, Mr. Speaker, is showing us what it considers unimportant. The environment. We are not touching the EPA. Their employees are funded through January 26. So we are saying, despite all the hypocrisy, they do not care about the environment, about clean water, clean air. Superfund. It is not included here. It is not as important as trade adjustment benefits, for example. OSHA. Fifty thousand working people in this country die or are severely injured in industrial accidents every year. In 13 States OSHA programs are done by contract. Nothing here for them, for those 13 States, because we do not care, obviously. It is not that important.”