Not just for 30 days as a continuing resolution. not for 6 months or a year. but to put it in place for all time. so that every year when the budget looks like it will go down in flames around September 30. that we will have this fallback lifesaving mechanism to prevent a Government shutdown and all the bad consequences that flow. After all. Mr. Speaker. this is a truism as well. that risking a Government shutdown really does cut back on funds. Cuts funds. Why? If the Government shuts down. all the mechanisms that get the Social Security checks out. the visas. the national parks. all the services that our constituents rightfully demand. all of those come to a halt. Indeed. then there is a cut in services. a cut in funding. a cut in appropriations. That is the real risk that we have. that the Government will shut down.