[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 68 (Wednesday, May 7, 2014)]
[House]
[Page H3456]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                             STOP THE GAMES

  (Mr. ELLISON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. ELLISON. Mr. Speaker, while the Democrats are working hard to 
address the needs of working Americans, over 2.5 million having been 
left out in the cold since the Republicans refused to bring up a bill, 
which is paid for, to extend unemployment insurance. Republicans are 
busy with yet another partisan, political exploitation of the tragedy 
in Benghazi.
  Yesterday, citizens had to go to the steps of the Capitol to talk 
about how they have lost their jobs and their unemployment insurance, 
and now they are at their wits' end and at the end of the family's 
budget. They need a responsive government to step up. Yet Republicans 
are announcing a select committee on Benghazi, despite already having 
had 13 hearings, 25,000 pages of document requests, and 50 briefings.
  This is an exploitation of a serious tragedy. We know what happened. 
But, you know what? It is politics.
  Unfortunately, the American people need a responsive government to 
help them, like the 2.5 million people who are desperately in need of 
the opportunity for their government to step forward to help them with 
this unemployment crisis.
  We can do more. We have got to do it now. Stop the games.

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