[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 114 (Thursday, July 14, 2016)]
[House]
[Page H4984]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       CONGRESS' APPROVAL RATING

  (Ms. DeGETTE asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Ms. DeGETTE. Mr. Speaker, a recent poll showed that Congress has an 
approval rating of 12 percent. Nobody in their right mind would ever 
think that is a good rating.
  It is no wonder that our poll ratings are so low. We have left now 
for 7 weeks--52 days, as you have heard--without funding Zika, despite 
the fact that it is spreading throughout the Southwest United States 
and the territories.
  We have left now for 52 days--7 weeks--without passing commonsense 
gun safety legislation, despite the terrible tragedies we are seeing in 
all of our communities every day.
  We have left town without addressing the opioid epidemic in any 
meaningful way through funding.
  Now, listen. Our constituents didn't send us here to go on vacation. 
They have sent us here to do the work of the people. And anybody who 
thinks that the people--our constituents--are not going to notice that 
we are not here doing this work for 7 weeks doesn't understand what the 
House Democratic Caucus intends to do for the next 2 months, because we 
intend to remind our constituents every single day of the job that we 
were elected to do.

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