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Keep the Government Open

Floor Speech

Date: Nov. 8, 2023
Location: Washington, DC

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Mr. CASTEN. Mr. Speaker, we operate on a September 30 fiscal year. Here we are 39 days later, and the majority has yet to even propose a way to keep the government open.

Last September, they kicked the can down the road and kept the government open for 45 days. In the words of Mr. Santos, that made you all ``big mad.'' You fired your Speaker. You have a new Speaker. A lot of you are still big mad. Instead of working, we are sitting here this week debating nonsense.

Here is an example. Lots of American companies operate overseas. Outside of the U.S. Republican Party, climate change is real, which means that U.S. companies have to comply with scientifically informed policy.

The Biden administration is appropriately trying to help develop U.S. climate reporting rules that are also scientifically informed to minimize the hassle of multijurisdictional reporting.

The Republican response to that is big mad. Today, we are voting on a bill that would defund the ability of regulators to develop consistent climate accounting rules instead of doing the work of the people.

Mr. Speaker, science is real. We have real challenges. Please stop being big mad.

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