[Congressional Record Volume 158, Number 172 (Tuesday, January 1, 2013)]
[House]
[Page H7518]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                  GET IT RIGHT AND DON'T ACT IN HASTE

  (Mr. BROOKS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. BROOKS. Mr. Speaker, the Senate passed a fiscal cliff bill this 
morning without time for Senators to adequately consider it and, more 
importantly, without giving the American people time to understand it 
and share their insight with Congress.
  Senator Mitch McConnell observed, ``This shouldn't be the model for 
how we do things around here,'' and then the Senate proceeded like a 
bull in a china closet anyway.
  The Senate boasts it is America's deliberative body. Today, that 
claim rings hollow.
  Mr. Speaker, the House must postpone this vote until Congress and the 
American people have time to study and evaluate this extraordinarily 
complex legislation and its impact on taxes, revenue, the economy, our 
debt, and a myriad of other issues. It is better to get it right than 
to act in haste.
  Mr. Speaker, if we vote on the Senate fiscal cliff bill today, I will 
vote against it because this is not the way to do the people's 
business. I will not condone with my vote a process that denies the 
American people an opportunity to participate in their Republic on 
issues of this magnitude.

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