[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 178 (Wednesday, December 9, 2015)]
[House]
[Page H9090]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




           FRIVOLOUS ADJOURNMENT MOTIONS STALL HOUSE BUSINESS

  (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, responsibly funding the government on time 
is one of the most basic and fundamental tasks of Members of Congress.
  This entire year, Republicans have been at the table pushing the work 
through the committee process to determine how best to allocate this 
funding. And coming into this week, there was healthy debate and 
negotiations on moving forward with these plans.
  However, yesterday, the partisan dialogue we witnessed from a number 
of my colleagues across the aisle was nothing more than a ruse. Five 
separate motions to adjourn in order to stall a bipartisan bill to 
tighten our visa system and protect our Nation's security, with purely 
political procedural votes to push their own gun control agendas is 
simply ridiculous. It wasted at least 3 hours of legislative time.
  Mr. Speaker, this is a time when Americans need their Representatives 
to come to the table and stop letting politics get in the way of 
actually getting the people's work done around this place.

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