[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 17]
[House]
[Page 22503]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          DO-NOTHING CONGRESS

  (Mr. MORAN of Virginia asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MORAN of Virginia. Madam Speaker, this year's Republican Congress 
was dubbed the most do-nothing Congress of all time, because it refused 
to do its job. Every year, at the very least, Congress is supposed to 
pass a budget and the 10 appropriation bills that fund the Federal 
Government. The Republicans never agreed on a budget resolution, and to 
date only two of the 10 appropriations bills have been signed into law.
  Congressional Republicans plan to adjourn this week without passing 
the eight other bills. It doesn't matter that we are already 2 months 
into the 2007 fiscal year. It doesn't matter to them apparently that 
important spending decisions need to be made for crucial health care, 
education, transportation and environmental programs. Congressional 
Republicans simply refuse to do the job they were sent here to do.
  Instead, they want to punt all of these funding decisions to the next 
Democratic Congress, giving us only a month to address the 2007 budget 
before the President sends us his 2008 budget recommendations. This is 
not the way Congress is supposed to work. The American people 
rightfully rejected a do-nothing Congress that continues to live up to 
its name.

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