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The Bill Then Says If The Senate Does Not Act, Then H.r. 1 (the House-passed Bill That Cuts $61 Billion) Will Be The Law Of The Land. In Addition To That, It Says That If All Else Fails, And The Senate Brings About A Shutdown, Then Members Should Not Get Their Pay.

The Republicans Have Put Together Serious Detailed Counter-proposals When We Have Objected To This Administration's Agenda. And So, I Want To Tell The President And Remind Him Again, We're Not Voting No For Political Expediency. We've Got Our Principles, And We're Going To Stand Up And Defend Those.

A Good Place To Start Is With The Kids ... One Of The Great Founding Principles Of Our Country Was That Children Would Not Be Punished For The Mistakes Of Their Parents. It Is Time To Provide An Opportunity For Legal Residence And Citizenship For Those Who Were Brought To This Country As Children And Who Know No Other Home.

But, As We've Seen Over The Last Several Months, The People In This Country Are Very Dissatisfied With The Direction That This Administration Is Taking This Country. And What We Heard Last Night Was Absolutely The Ignoring Of That Fact. It Was: We're Going To Continue With This Agenda. In Fact, We're Going To Double Down On Healthcare.

The American People Elected Us Here To Cut Spending So We Can Create An Environment For Jobs In America. The House Has Acted. We Have Demonstrated That We Want To See Spending, Discretionary Spending, Brought Down To Levels Of 2008. We've Seen No Counteraction. We Have Seen No Position That Has Been Expressed By The Other Side At All.