[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 112 (Wednesday, July 31, 2013)]
[House]
[Page H5183]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    MR. SPEAKER, CANCEL THIS RECESS

  (Mr. NOLAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. NOLAN. Mr. Speaker and Members of the House, I am calling on the 
Speaker to cancel or to postpone the August recess until we get our 
work done here.
  As a businessman, the last thing I would ever consider doing is 
giving my employees a month or 5 weeks off when we're not getting our 
job done.
  Mr. Speaker, you're the boss. You set the schedule, and you put 
together the work agenda. The simple truth is that this Congress is 
being recognized as the least productive or accomplished in the history 
of this country. We have an appropriations bill; we have budget bills; 
we have the farm bill; we have immigration; we have the President's 
jobs bill; we have the debt ceiling limit; we have Members of Congress 
threatening to shut down the government--and we're going on a recess? 
It makes no sense whatsoever.
  It's time that this Congress goes to work, puts the subcommittees to 
work, goes to work 5 days a week like everybody else in America, and 
does its job. Put America back to work. Rebuild the middle class. Get 
this country moving again.
  Mr. Speaker, cancel this recess.

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