Rep. Doggett (D-TX): Shut down the Republican "Shutdown Caucus"

[Tx4obama]

-snip-

Transcript:

37 of 40 fine National Park Service workers at the Missions National Historical Park in San Antonio, have been sent home because of this shutdown nonsense. I want them back at work. But what about 90% of the Small Business Administration field employees across town who have also been sent home?

Suzanna Cabellero, just one of the agents processing small business loans, called to tell me that this SBA shutdown is jeopardizing four of her small businesses that could create 214 Texas jobs. In two cases, the delay may cost a small businessperson to lose a purchase contract and earnest money. This latest Republican shutdown nonsense discriminates against small businesses and to some of those small businesses that discrimination may be fatal.

And what if a worker is killed this afternoon in a construction accident? Who from the largely shuttered doors of the Occupational Health and Safety Administration will be there to ensure that another worker doesn't experience the same fate?

Of course, the "Shutdown Caucus" is happy, gleeful, delighted to shut down 94% of the Environmental Protection Agency; they're only troubled that they couldn't get the other 6%, because they don't really believe in protecting, with effective safeguards, the quality of the air we breathe and the water we drink.

Instead of shutting down the whole government, this resolution says, let's just have a little dismemberment. And through all of this reckless Republican maneuvering, it is not only the United States that cannot pay its bills, but it is so many families who out there wondering how they are going to make the next truck payment or the next rent or mortgage payment. Shut down the Republican "Shutdown Caucus" before it strangles America the way it has strangled the Republican party.

http://www.burntorangereport.com/diary/14156/rep-lloyd-doggett-addresses-the-republican-shutdown-caucus-on-capitol-hill

[dlwickham]

1. very well put

[BillyRibs]

2. Teahaddest don't care

About small business. they only care about The 1%!

[drynberg]

3. That's right...so, whatta we gonna do besides get disgusted and mad?

How about channeling this energy towards changing the outcomes in enough Congressional Districts so this can't happen after Jan. 2015? We gotta pour everything into the Nov. 2014 elections.