[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 21]
[House]
[Page 29781]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




            UNTIE MILITARY CONSTRUCTION AND VETERANS FUNDING

  (Mr. DANIEL E. LUNGREN of California asked and was given permission 
to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his 
remarks.)
  Mr. DANIEL E. LUNGREN of California. Madam Speaker, let us suppose 
that I went out to buy a new car today, and I went to the dealer and I 
made a deal, saw exactly what I wanted, made an agreement on the price, 
and I called him up tomorrow and asked when it would be available, and 
I called him up the day after that, and I called him up the day after 
that, and after 140 days he finally said, you can come in and pick up 
your car. And when I went in to pick up the car he said, oh, by the 
way, we have this used car in the back that no one will buy, this 
clunker, this thing that won't work, and that's part of the deal. Now, 
you have to not only pay what it's worth, but you have to pay $9.7 
thousand additional dollars for it.
  Would you consider that fair? Would that be considered fair dealing? 
Would you really be concerned about the purchaser and what they're 
purchasing, or would it look like sharp practices? Would it look like 
kind of rope-a-dope? Would it look like a bait-and-switch?
  What do we have here?
  We have a bill that's been waiting for 140 days for us to vote on 
that we have almost unanimous agreement on, and what are they doing? 
They're tying a clunker to it.
  Untie this, Madam Speaker, and allow us to get our business done.

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