Congresswoman Lois Frankel voted against a partisan bill that makes keeping our government running beyond Monday contingent on delaying access to health care for millions of Americans for a year.

“The clock is ticking and instead of putting forward real solutions, my colleagues on the other side of the aisle have resorted to holding our government hostage with yet another reckless effort to undermine the Affordable Care Act” Frankel said. “I share the frustration of South Floridians and millions of Americans that this is no way to run the government and it’s time for an end to the game-playing.”

Frankel spoke on the House floor Saturday calling on her colleagues to work together and avert a government shutdown. In response to Tea Party favorite Senator Ted Cruz, Frankel quoted Dr. Seuss, whose prose was cited earlier this week by Cruz in his “talkathon” to defund Obamacare.

In her remarks Frankel used a passage from the popular children’s author’s Fox in Socks as a way to characterize the inane behavior of House Republicans.

Frankel’s Remarks Saturday on House Floor:

“Mr. Speaker, With all due respect to my friends on the other side of the aisle, this shutdown talk has evolved to the ridiculous. To quote Dr. Seuss:

“‘When beetles fight these battles in a bottle with their paddles and the bottle's on a poodle and the poodle's eating noodles…they call this a muddle puddle tweetle poodle beetle noodle bottle paddle battle.’  

“Mr. Speaker, it is time to work together and stop this battle.”

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