[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 18]
[House]
[Page 25937]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                           A FAILED CONGRESS

  (Ms. DeLAURO asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, the fact of the matter is that we have 
spent 2 years here, 2 years; and the majority in this House that told 
us the trains were going to run on time, the train has crashed into the 
barrier here because they have not been able to have the trains run on 
time.
  We did pass in this House a bipartisan bill for a Patients' Bill of 
Rights. We passed a bipartisan bill for campaign finance reform. We 
have bipartisan agreement on common sense gun safety legislation. We 
could have done something about a Medicare prescription drug benefit 
where all of our seniors were covered. The very fact of the matter is 
that the Republican leadership of this House is in the pocket of the 
special interests, refuses to pass any of this legislation, could not 
pass all of their appropriations bills, cannot get a budget off the 
ground, and do not know what to do to get out of here. They do not have 
a program; and if they had a program, they cannot get themselves 
organized to get it passed in this body. A failed Congress by any sense 
of the imagination.

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