[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 114 (Friday, August 2, 2013)]
[House]
[Page H5375]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      CONGRESS SHOULD NOT ADJOURN

  (Ms. SHEA-PORTER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. SHEA-PORTER. Mr. Speaker, here we are Friday afternoon. We have a 
lot of people around the country who are going home for the weekend, 
but expecting to go back to their workplace on Monday. Congress is not 
coming back until September.
  Did we get everything done? No, we did not. We did manage to vote 
against ObamaCare 40 times, and basically that means we have voted 
against the people of this country and their right to health insurance 
40 times.
  We did not cancel the sequester, which is hurting people. I delivered 
meals last week to a 101-year-old man who has had his meals cut because 
of sequester. We didn't pass any jobs bill, not one, not a single jobs 
bill. All we've managed to do in this body is to try to take health 
care away from American citizens.
  I urge Congress to stay here. I urge the Speaker to call us back and 
make us do the job the American public sent us here to do.

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