[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 114 (Thursday, July 14, 2016)]
[House]
[Pages H4977-H4978]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    CONGRESS' SEVEN-WEEK ADJOURNMENT

  (Mr. LOEBSACK asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. LOEBSACK. Mr. Speaker, after being in session for only 74 days so 
far this year, the Republican leadership has decided to send us home 
for 7\1/2\ weeks. That is thoroughly unacceptable to the American 
people. They expect us to do our job.

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  That is not what we are going to be doing for the next 7\1/2\ weeks. 
We have a laundry list of things that we have to get done. We need 
comprehensive gun safety reform. We need comprehensive legislation to 
deal with Zika and other serious bio-threats.
  We have to deal with the Social Security COLA problem for our 
seniors, higher education reauthorization, comprehensive mental health 
reform--we passed some of that in the House, but we have to do more--
comprehensive job package, postal reform, campaign finance reform. You 
name it, we have to do it. We haven't done it yet.
  It is time for us to do our job. It is time for the Republicans to 
bring us back. After those conventions, we could come back in August, 
folks, and we could get the job done.

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