Mike Gallagher: “In just a few hours, Members of this body are leaving for a 2-week recess without having resolved the significant…”

“In just a few hours, Members of this body are leaving for a 2-week recess without having resolved the significant question of funding the government. Funding expires only 3 days after we return--3 days--yet we are leaving. We are skipping town, but just yesterday, the chiefs of all of the military branches testified before this body about the damage another continuing resolution would do to our military. The leaders of the Army, the Navy, the Marine Corps, and the Air Force all testified that a continuing resolution would put our warfighters in greater danger, our Nation at greater risk, and the world less secure; yet we are leaving with our work unfinished. Our troops continue to serve, but we are leaving. In what other profession would you take a 2-week pause without actually finishing the job? Now, I know I am new to the House, but someone please tell me how this makes sense. We should stay in session and do what the American people sent us here to do: our jobs. ____________________”