So I am happy to join PATRICK MCHENRY and other colleagues in remembering Cass Ballenger fondly and paying tribute to his years of good citizenship and service. Now. at this moment. Mr. Speaker. we are 38 hours away from a Department of Homeland Security shutdown which will undermine many of the agencys critical missions and force its essential employees to go without pay until the politics of all this are worked out. Frontline personnel at Customs and Border Protection. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. the Coast Guard. the Secret Service. the Transportation Security Administration. and other critical agencies are going to be left wondering how to pay their mortgages and how to feed their families instead of focusing on their critical missions. In North Carolina alone. Mr.
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