[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 120 (Tuesday, July 29, 2014)]
[House]
[Pages H6988-H6989]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 REPUBLICANS IGNORE AMERICA'S PROBLEMS

  (Ms. TITUS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Ms. TITUS. Mr. Speaker, in 2 days, we will go home, leaving behind a 
long list of unfinished business, but it is not for lack of trying on 
the part of Democrats.
  We have introduced bills, signed discharge petitions, protested on 
the steps of the Capitol, and fasted on the Mall, all to try to prompt 
or at least shame the Republicans into some kind of action, but they 
are shameless.
  Apparently, they just don't care. They don't care if women get paid 
less, as long as CEOs get record salaries. They don't care if children 
stack up at the border and families are divided, as long as they can 
sue the President.

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They don't care if people struggle to get by on low wages or with no 
unemployment insurance, as long as corporations can keep their tax 
loopholes, and they don't care if the environment is raped, as long as 
big polluters can continue to circumvent regulations that protect our 
air and water.
  Before we go home, we need to show the American people that Congress 
does care about them, and we need to pass important measures that jump-
start the middle class, so we can say we did something while we were 
here.

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