[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 148 (2002), Part 9]
[House]
[Pages 12412-12413]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         DO SOMETHING, CONGRESS

  (Mr. ROEMER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ROEMER. Mr. Speaker, there is an old saying about getting 
prepared enough to address a problem, and it goes something like this: 
Nero fiddled while Rome burned.
  Well, the House Republican leadership has not even picked up the 
fiddle to address some of the problems that we have in the world today 
that are a result of the terrorist attack on 9-11.
  Today, we have one single vote all day in the House of 
Representatives, when in fact there are three important pieces of 
legislation that are bipartisan that we could bring up today. One is 
the intelligence authorization bill that is languishing in the 
Committee on Rules.
  Why does the House Republican leadership not bring up a bill that 
funds our intelligence community and begin some reforms to correct 
problems from the past?
  Secondly, we have a defense emergency supplemental to pay for our 
troops in Afghanistan. That is not on the floor.
  And thirdly, a bipartisan AmeriCorps bill to make sure that our 
volunteers that want to do something in America can respond to the 
concerns there.
  Let us have the House Republican leadership tell us why these bills 
are not on the floor.

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