[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 134 (Wednesday, October 2, 2013)]
[House]
[Page H6157]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        THIS BODY MUST DO BETTER

  (Mr. LaMALFA asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LaMALFA Mr. Speaker, it shouldn't come as a surprise that we have 
different ideas on the different sides of the aisle here.
  Republicans believe in a smaller government, a less intrusive 
government, and so it shouldn't be a surprise when we step forward with 
ideas on budgeting, on spending, that we would want to pick and choose 
things that we think are appropriate for the government to do, and not 
fund the things that are inappropriate.
  That's the situation, as we view it, with the Obama health care 
takeover. We see that it doesn't work. We see it's going to be 
horrendously more expensive.
  What really disappoints me though, observing the last few days, as a 
newer Member here, is the decorum on this House floor, the yelling, the 
name-calling, the pointing, even the way the desk was addressed here 
earlier today.
  I mean, I think the American people expect a discourse that is a 
little more honorable than all the yelling and the name-calling.
  So if we want to have a discussion, which Republicans do, with our 
colleagues on the other side of the aisle, with the Senate, with the 
White House, we need to do it in a way that actually makes it 
attractive to talk to each other.
  I like to watch motor sports. And if everybody on the racetrack was 
bashing each other off the track, you wouldn't have a race anymore. 
There'd be nothing to watch. You wouldn't have a sport. You wouldn't 
have a game.
  This is much bigger than those types of games here, yet we don't have 
a discussion, we don't even have a way to have a discourse with all the 
name-calling.
  So I'd ask for this body to do better.

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