[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 15]
[House]
[Pages 20064-20065]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                  THE DO-LESS-THAN-DO-NOTHING CONGRESS

  (Ms. WATSON asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Ms. WATSON. Mr. Speaker, we have all heard about the do-nothing 
Congress of 1948 that met only 101 days. Well, Mr. Speaker, I am sad to 
report that this Republican-led Congress will go down in history as the 
do-less-than-nothing Congress.
  Today is only the 78th day that we have met for legislative business. 
And yet the Republican leadership insists on recessing at the end of 
this week to allow extra time for campaigning. Democrats believe we 
should not adjourn this body until we address this needs of all 
Americans, not just major corporations and the wealthy few.
  To do that, we must deal with the issue of the skyrocketing college 
tuition costs that are plaguing so many

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students and their families. Democrats are fighting to restore the $12 
million in student aid recently cut by the Republican Congress, and to 
finally expand the size of available Pell Grants that those on the 
other side of the aisle have been blocking for so many years.
  Mr. Speaker, since Republicans in this body have no plans to address 
college affordability, before they head back to campaign, I ask for 
unanimous consent to bring up a revised Labor, Health and Human 
Services budget bill that ends the Republican raid on student aid.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under the settled guidelines previously 
cited, that request cannot be entertained.

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