[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 114 (Thursday, July 14, 2016)]
[House]
[Page H4986]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 LEGISLATURE NEEDS TO GET ITS WORK DONE

  (Mr. LARSON of Connecticut asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LARSON of Connecticut. Mr. Speaker, in Dallas, Texas, we saw a 
champion. We saw a champion in Police Chief David Brown and how he 
conducted himself. When asked about his responsibility, he said: We 
will continue to do our responsibility as police officers, as we do 
every day out in the field. But the legislature needs to do its 
responsibility. The legislature needs to get its work done.
  Those brave police officers do their work every day, and yet this 
Congress has not.
  Roosevelt said it best about our colleagues on the other side of the 
aisle: They are frozen in the ice of their own indifference--
indifference to the slaughter that takes place in our streets, 
indifference to the more than 1,000 mass murders that have taken place, 
indifference to the threat of Zika and the spread of disease, and 
indifference to children in Flint, Michigan.
  It is time for us to do as David Brown said, ``Do your job.''

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