“Mr. Speaker, well, there are only 4 days left until the Department of Homeland Security shuts down, so I urge all my GOP colleagues to please take up a clean funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security and take away the threat of another government shutdown. Take that threat off the table”, says Kildee.
On February 24, 2015 Rep. Dan Kildee asked for and was granted permission to address the United States House of Representatives for one minute regarding the urgent need to fund the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) immediately before a shutdown on Friday:
“Mr. Speaker, well, there are only 4 days left until the Department of Homeland Security shuts down, so I urge all my GOP colleagues to please take up a clean funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security and take away the threat of another government shutdown. Take that threat off the table.
If you won’t listen to us on the Democratic side of the aisle, listen to some of your own colleagues. Listen to Senator Ron Johnson who said: “The political impasse on DHS funding must end.”
Or listen to Representative Mike McCaul, who is chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security. He said: “We should not be playing politics with the national security agency like DHS, particularly given the high threat environment we’re in right now.”
Let’s stop the gamesmanship. Let’s get back to governing the way the American people want us to. Bring a clean DHS funding bill to the floor.”
Source: Congressional Record
See video: Congressman Dan Kildee Urges GOP to Not Shut Down Homeland Security https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeI7iNhHPho
See video: Congressman Dan Kildee Urges GOP to Fund Department of Homeland Security on CNN’s Wolf Blitzer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxN6_viumxA
See related video: Rep. Kildee on DHS Funding https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrTcQ4zIQTU