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| https://price.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases/price-calls-full-funding-dhs-all-other-depts-partial-funding-bills-days-late | PRICE CALLS FOR FULL FUNDING OF DHS, ALL OTHER DEPTS.: 'PARTIAL FUNDING BILLS DAYS LATE AND BILLIONS SHORT' | 2013-10-10 | 2013 | 2013-10 | Democrat | House | NC | David Price | P000523 | price.house.gov | legacy | Washington, D.C. Representative David Price (D-NC) gave remarks in the House of Representatives today, urging Republican leaders to pass a bill funding all of the Department of Homeland Security as a part of a resolution to open the entire government. The narrow bill put forward by Republicans only funds the Department's border security functions, leaving the U.S. Secret Service, the Transportation Security Administration, the National Protection and Programs Directorate, the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, the Federal Protective Service, the Office of Health Affairs, the Domestic Nuclear Detection Office, Analysis and Operations (intelligence), the Office of the Inspector General, and research and development programs, unfunded. The federal government shut down last week after Republicans refused to pass a bill funding the government in order to extract political concessions derailing the Affordable Care Act. Rep. Price remarks are below. Watch Rep. Price's Remarks on YouTube Enough is enough! The American people are fed up with partisan games and procedural gimmicks. They see through it, and they are demanding we come together and get the government back to work today. If the Speaker of the House is so sure that the votes for a clean funding bill are not there, he should call the vote to prove it to the American people. Except he won't do that, because everyone in this chamber knows that the Senate-passed continuing resolution would clear this House in a heartbeat and end this Tea-Party fueled dream of government collapse. Today the majority has decided the government function they want to give political cover to is border security. Border security obviously wasn't very high on their list; we've had to wait ten days before they got around to it. And of course the question remains: why didn't they think more about border security -- or cancer research, or the national parks, or women's and children's nutrition -- when they were shutting the government down last Monday? Ten days late, and billions of dollars short, you might say. As someone who has worked for years, in a bipartisan spirit, to secure our nation's border, I certainly appreciate that border security is one of the most sensitive and dangerous areas of the budget with which to play partisan political games. But I have to ask: what about the many other critical homeland security functions that this bill wouldn't do anything to fix -- including protecting our nation from cyber-attacks, for example, or keeping our aviation and mass transit systems safe, or funding the Secret Service, or developing the next generation of explosive detection technology? We cannot continue to pick winners and losers by providing temporary funding for government services, operations, and personnel. This piece-meal approach to governing is failing our constituents and failing our economy. The only solution is to reopen the entire federal government by calling up the clean funding bill passed by the Senate. Last week, we were told by Republican leaders not to worry: furloughed employees should stand by,' they said, while the House votes to reopen the government one news cycle at a time. Well, the American people's livelihoods can't wait for another news cycle. We are tired of waiting and tired of this charade. Let's dispense with this political theater and get back to our basic job description: keep the government open, pay the country's bills, and negotiate a comprehensive budget plan that lifts sequestration, revives our economy, and secures our fiscal future. The first step is a clean continuing resolution. Let's do it today. # # # | 1 | 2026-03-30T12:14:52Z | 2026-03-30T12:14:52Z |