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WASHINGTON—U.S. Representative Brittany Pettersen (CO-07) released the following statement after the U.S. House of Representatives went into recess without a Speaker:

“The American people shouldn’t have to pay the price for the Republican party’s inability to govern. It’s been two and a half weeks since the U.S. House of Representatives had a Speaker. Yet, we’ve all been sent home. 

“We need a functional Congress. Our federal government and the services we all rely on are less than one month away from running out of money. People continue to struggle with rising costs as our economy recovers from a global pandemic. We have urgent international needs, like the conflicts in Israel, Gaza, and Ukraine, that we must address for the long-term security of the United States and the world. 

“There is too much at stake for us to allow the far-right extremists in Congress to hold the rest of us and our government hostage. Republicans have been unable to select a party leader for weeks and I am extremely disappointed that they continue to choose partisanship over coming together with Democrats to find a bipartisan path forward. The American people need leadership and bipartisanship from their government – not chaos and dysfunction.”