[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 7]
[House]
[Pages 9721-9722]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                  TIME FOR NEW MANAGEMENT IN THE HOUSE

  (Mr. INSLEE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. INSLEE. Madam Speaker, my oldest son Jack is a carpenter, and one 
of the reasons I am so proud of him is he is such a hard worker. It 
doesn't matter how hard it is raining out in Seattle, he is out there 
swinging the hammer.

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  That is one reason we should not respect the current pathetic 
management team of the Republican Party who is on a course to make this 
Congress the least productive Congress in American history, for one 
reason, because we don't do any work.
  Of the 5 months that we have been here, we are on a track to work 
about 38 days. If you have an employee that out of 5 months does 38 
days of work, what do you think you ought to do? Unemployment. A pink 
slip for the folks who are not running this Congress.
  In Truman's time, we had the do-nothing Congress. This is the do-
less-than-nothing Congress. If you want to know why there is no 
progress on Iraq, why there is no progress on energy, why there is no 
progress on helping the folks after Katrina, it is because the people 
here in this management stay home and don't do any work.
  It is time to start swinging a hammer, and, to do that, it is time to 
get new management in this House and get Congress working for the 
American people again.

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