[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 114 (Thursday, July 14, 2016)]
[House]
[Pages H4979-H4980]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




            CONGRESS ADJOURNS WITHOUT ACTING ON URGENT NEEDS

  (Ms. McCOLLUM asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. McCOLLUM. Mr. Speaker, this do-nothing Congress is adjourning for 
7 weeks without acting on our urgent public health needs: gun violence, 
Zika, and the Flint water crisis.
  Republicans have bent to the will of the gun lobby and refused to 
consider bipartisan legislation to prevent gun violence.
  Republicans have refused to sufficiently fund our response to the 
Zika virus and, instead, used this crisis as a way to advance their 
anti-choice agenda.
  And Republicans have failed to address the long-term damage done to 
the children of Flint by lead-poisoned water. We should be working to 
fix our

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water infrastructure in Flint and across America so this tragedy never 
happens again. And, again this week, Republicans blocked an amendment 
on the Interior-Environment bill to help the families of Flint.
  Now Republicans are heading to a 7-week recess without doing their 
jobs, standing up for the health and safety of the American people.

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