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| https://price.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases/price-gop-recklessly-provokes-government-shutdown | PRICE: GOP RECKLESSLY PROVOKES GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN | 2013-09-28 | 2013 | 2013-09 | Democrat | House | NC | David Price | P000523 | price.house.gov | legacy | Washington, D.C. Representative David Price (D-NC) issued the following statement today in reaction to the decision by House Republicans to reject the clean, bipartisan Continuing Resolution passed by the Senate and instead to amend the measure in yet another attempt to delay the Affordable Care Act. By failing to send the Senate-passed bill to the President, House Republicans made it almost certain that the government will shut down when its current funding authority expires at midnight on Monday, September 30. The choice facing House Republicans was crystal clear: keep the government open for a few more weeks so Congress can finish work on the budget, or shut down the government to appease their most extreme members. After three years of lurching from crisis to crisis, undermining our economic recovery and undercutting the middle class, the decision they made is not surprising. But it is no less disappointing, and its implications for our future are no less damaging. While the Senate-passed Continuing Resolution does not provide an ideal level of funding, it does ensure the federal government remains open, that millions of Americans receive the Medicare, Social Security, and veterans benefits they have earned, and that our economic recovery continues. Instead of taking up this commonsense measure, Republicans chose once again to hold our economy hostage to their partisan demands. Instead of working with the President and Democrats to negotiate a comprehensive budget deal that replaces sequestration, accelerates our recovery, and charts a responsible fiscal course, they are once again tilting at windmills in their ideological fervor. And they are doing all of this to deny access to affordable health care to millions of Americans! The Senate has sent the House a reasonable measure. Let us pass it and get on with the business we were elected to do. # # # | 1 | 2026-03-30T12:14:52Z | 2026-03-30T12:14:52Z |