[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 148 (Wednesday, October 5, 2011)]
[House]
[Page H6568]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




               TWO SIMPLE TASKS FOR THE DO-NOTHING SENATE

  (Mr. HULTGREN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. HULTGREN. Mr. Speaker, if our colleagues at the opposite end of 
this Capitol, the Senate, are serious about getting our economy moving 
and America back to work, I urge them to do two things immediately. To 
start with, for the first time in 888 days, they should do what every 
American family and business does and set a budget; 888 days--almost 30 
months--without a budget is not just an abdication of responsibility. 
It is a fundamental failure to govern.
  Second, they should immediately take up a bill we sent with 
overwhelming bipartisan support, the Reducing Regulatory Burdens Act. 
We passed it in March; they've done nothing. If we don't act on it by 
the end of this month, our agriculture sector will be deluged with a 
new avalanche of needless red tape.
  I hope that this do-nothing Senate will move on both of these issues 
immediately in order to help both the American people and the American 
economy.

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