January 11, 2019 - Issue: Vol. 165, No. 6 — Daily Edition116th Congress (2019 - 2020) - 1st Session

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From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                        TIME TO END THE SHUTDOWN

  (Mrs. CRAIG asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mrs. CRAIG. Madam Speaker, today, air traffic controllers in a 
regional facility in Farmington continue to work without pay, while 
support staff is furloughed. Adding insult to injury, in the last few 
hours, they received regularly scheduled earnings statements that read 
zero dollars and zero cents.
  Earlier this week, I met with them in Burnsville and again in 
Washington. I heard their stories.
  Joe, a new father with a baby born 10 weeks early still in the NICU, 
had his leave canceled because of the shutdown.
  Jeremy, a father of three, may have to take out credit card debt just 
to pay the bills.
  And Kelly, a trainee with student loan debt, doesn't know how she is 
going to make ends meet.
  Each of them, on behalf of communities and passengers they may never 
know, remains committed.
  It is time to end the shutdown and stop playing politics with 
people's lives.

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