[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 17]
[House]
[Page 22804]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                            PRETTY PATHETIC

  (Mr. HOYER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HOYER. Mr. Speaker, the Republican-controlled Congress is 
shambling to the end of one of the lightest workloads in decades 
without a hint of embarrassment, New York Times, 9/24/04. No budget, no 
budget enforcement plan. No energy bill. No highway bill. No 
intelligence reform. No export tax relief. No welfare reform. Eleven of 
13 appropriations bills still on the desk. Lost jobs.
  The 108th Congress is a do-nothing Congress, contemptuously arrogant 
and disdainful of long-established political and parliamentary 
procedures. So said Al Hunt in the New York Times.
  Norman Ornstein's much simpler, much more pointed observation about 
the 108th Congress. ``Pretty pathetic,'' said Norm Ornstein. And the 
last 24 hours have been a stunning testament to the pathetic product of 
this 108th do-nothing, do-bad Congress.

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