On the recordJanuary 8, 2003
Mr. Speaker, I think it is always good in exchanges like this that every once in a while we try to come back to reality and discuss what the topic for debate actually is. What we have under consideration is a continuing resolution so that the Federal Government can stay open through the end of January, so that people who are expecting some sort of Federal benefit, whether it be a Social Security check, whether it is the continuation of Medicare, whether it is the processing of their Veterans Administration disability claim, whatever it may be, we are here to talk about a resolution to enable the Federal Government to keep going through the end of January. We are in that situation because the kind of bickering that we are hearing from too many people on this floor was what predominated last year and kept us from adopting any permanent appropriations legislation.
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