Από: Representative Mike Kelly [[email protected]] Αποστολή: Τρι 29/10/2013 18:08 Προς: vassilios gikas Κοιν.: Θέμα: Responding to your message Συνημμένα: October 29, 2013 Dear Dr. Gikas, Thank you for contacting me regarding raising the debt ceiling and the partial government shutdown. I greatly appreciate your taking the time to contact me on this important issue. As you know, the government was recently shut down due to a lapse in appropriations. Like most members of Congress, I did not want the government to shut down. After multiple continuing resolutions and ongoing negotiations, the Senate amendment to H.R. 2775, the Continuing Appropriations Resolution, was considered in the House of Representatives and passed by a vote of 285 – 144. This bipartisan legislation will fully fund all government operations until January, 15, 2014, and raise the nations debt limit through February 7, 2014. It will also instruct the formation of a bicameral conference committee to resolve the differences between the House and Senate budget plans and ultimately forge an agreement. The American people deserve and demand a fully functioning government that lives up to its responsibilities. They also rightly demand that their government treat every taxpayer fairly under the law. This is why the House acted multiple times to keep the government open in the first place and seized every opportunity to protect Americans from the unfair effects of the presidents health care law along the way. While the fight for fairness under Obamacare will endure beyond this compromise, Americans can now rest assured that the federal shutdown is over and that a devastating default will not happen. This agreement will allow my colleagues and I in Congress to resume the paramount tasks of bolstering job growth, making our outdated tax code fairer and simpler, and finally getting our historically high debt under control. Regardless of the disagreements that persist between the parties and branches here in Washington, its time to get back to work and focus on meeting the challenges ahead. Thank you for contacting me regarding these important issues. Please do not hesitate to contact me or my staff if I can be of assistance in the future. If you would like to receive regular updates from me on this issue and others, please subscribe to my newsletter at kelly.house.gov. Sincerely, Mike Kelly Member of Congress Click here to subscribe to my newsletter.
Posted on: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 16:12:39 +0000
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