On the recordNovember 14, 2023
I thank the gentleman from Texas for yielding the customary 30 minutes, and I yield myself such time as I may consume. For the past 6 months, the Republican majority, embroiled in chaos and dysfunction, has wasted valuable time. Because they are unable to perform the most basic job of Congress, working with Representatives from both parties and across the country to fund the government, they have brought us to the brink of a shutdown twice in the last 2 months. Before that, they threatened to tank the global economy, and if their proposals pass this week, we will likely face new shutdown threats again in the new year. This isn't serious governance. It is not serious or governance at all. They are playing politics with Americans' lives and our country's future. It is outrageous that my constituents are yet again subjected to the uncertainty and fear that their paychecks won't come next week and that services they rely upon, like LIHEAP and WIC, will be interrupted. House Republicans still refuse to come to the table where the majority of the American people are and work with us in a bipartisan way to pass the spending bills that Americans expect and deserve. The Senate is doing it. Why can't the House? Instead, House Republicans continue to try to force the entire country to go along with their farcical and extremist approach to government funding. Unsurprisingly, they continue to fail, over and over again, on the House floor.…
