On the recordDecember 2, 2021
I thank the Chairwoman and all of the very important people on the Appropriations Committee for their work on this bill. I ask the question, what side do you want to be on? Do you want to be on the side that provides our hardworking military pay raises for the troops, to be able to get money away from a misdirected war? Do you want to be on the side that provides for working families? Do you want to be on the side that stops those who can't pay for daycare to have that? Do you want to be on the side of those who say, ``I am a Federal employee, and I have been shut out of my job''? What side do you want to be on? I want to be on the side of negotiating an omnibus that works for the American people. I want my Republican friends to know that we have tried to negotiate, but we are adults and we are not going to let this government shut down. What we are going to do is recognize these are dangerous times. We know that there is now an omicron variant. We are not going to play the antivaxxer game, we are not going to say that it is about vaccine mandates because we know that most of the Federal Government has been vaccinated; but what we are going to do is extend this resolution to keep the government open because the side that Democrats are on is the side of the American people and our government workers who go out and work every day and the families who go out and work every day. The SPEAKER pro tempore (Ms. Scanlon). The time of the gentlewoman has expired. Ms.…
