[Congressional Record Volume 158, Number 128 (Thursday, September 20, 2012)]
[House]
[Pages H6163-H6164]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 DYSFUNCTIONAL HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

  (Mr. MORAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. MORAN. Mr. Speaker, I want to talk about the number 47, not as in 
the percentage of Americans, the soldiers and students and elderly and 
working poor, many of whom are paying more in total taxes than Mr. 
Romney is paying on his tens of millions of dollars in annual income 
but who, nevertheless,

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he seems to consider to be slackers. No, I'm talking about 47 as in the 
number of days left before the election, in the context of the fact 
that we have 1 more day that we will be in session. The most basic and 
fundamental responsibilities our constituents sent us to Washington to 
address are being left totally unresolved. Never have I seen a House of 
Representatives so unproductive and so dysfunctional, and I served 
during the so-called ``Gingrich Revolution.''
  The fact is that today the House Republican leadership and too many 
of its rank-and-file Members seem to think that economic stimulus, 
which is vitally needed in this economy, is a dirty word, and that the 
Federal Government is some kind of alien enterprise. Their approach is 
to do nothing, and that's what we've done for the last 2 years--
nothing.

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