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Reopen Government

Floor Speech

Date: Oct. 12, 2013
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Government Operations Government Budget and Spending

Mr. ELLISON. Mr. Speaker, I am looking forward to joining my colleagues in that line to sign a discharge petition that will reopen government. Not with conditions, not on the condition that we want this thing or we want that thing, and we won't open the government until we get it, but just to open the government with no conditions.

My Republican friends know very well that this shutdown is for one reason, and one reason only. It is because they wanted to delay, defund, and destroy health care for the American people. They are ready to destroy the American economy unless they get it.

We don't have to go through this long line. We can open up the government in 15 minutes if Speaker Boehner puts a clean continuing resolution on the floor right now. Let's get it done.


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