Aderholt: The President and Senate Democrats Need to Put Politics Aside and Come to the Table to Find a Greater Solution

Washington, D.C.— Congressman Robert Aderholt (AL-04) released the following statement after the United States House of Representatives passed three measures that would immediately put an end to delayed veterans benefits, closed national parks and memorials, and provide the District of Columbia the authority to use their own revenue to continue operations.

“While the House continues to offer to fund the federal government, Senate Democrats continue to refuse anything less than absolutely everything they want,” said Aderholt “The passage of these three bills tonight will ensure our nation’s veterans receive the benefits they have earned and allow our national parks and monuments to re-open. Further, they are another offer from the House to put politics aside and come to the table to find a greater solution. House Republicans will continue these efforts to keep the government running and protect Alabamians from the President’s health care law as we wait for Senate Democrats to start working with us.”

While Senate Democrats have again rejected our offer to come to the table to negotiate a solution today, the House continues to engage in the legislative process that they have chosen to abandon,” said Aderholt.

Aderholt currently serves as Chairman of the Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration and Related Agencies for the powerful House Appropriations Committee, is a member of the Committee’s Commerce, Justice and Science; and Homeland Security Subcommittees, and also serves on the Helsinki Commission.

For more information about Aderholt’s work in Congress visit: www.aderholt.house.gov.