[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 114 (Thursday, July 14, 2016)]
[House]
[Pages H4981-H4982]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           LAMEDUCK CONGRESS

  (Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, the Republicans shot out of here 
like mice when you cut the lights on; so busy to get to their 
convention, their Titanic convention in Cleveland, where they will 
nominate Donald Trump to be their next President, all the while, 
leaving the people of Flint, Michigan, up the river without a paddle.
  Then, on top of that, to take no action on funding Zika and to pass a 
bill, but no funding, is like sending soldiers into war without a 
weapon or, worse

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yet, sending them to war with a gun that they didn't know didn't have 
any bullets in it.
  It is really criminal that my friends from the other side of the 
aisle would leave America in the lurch, leaving us only 17 legislative 
days when we return in 7 weeks to do the work of the people, only 17 
days left before the lameduck session. And, really, I believe that this 
Congress has been operating as a lameduck since it began.

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