[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 1]
[House]
[Pages 622-623]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         BUDGETLESS RESOLUTION

  (Mr. CICILLINE asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. CICILLINE. Mr. Speaker, I rise today with serious concerns about 
the

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misguided agenda our friends on the other side of the aisle are 
pursuing.
  While Democrats continue to make job creation, economic recovery, and 
debt reduction top priorities, the majority continues to engage in 
political theater. In fact, their first actions after assuming control 
of the House haven't created a single job or protected a single 
American business.
  Instead, the other side's top priority has been to repeal the patient 
protections provided by the new health care reform bill; and their so-
called ``budget resolution'' they have offered today is a one-page 
document with no specific cuts to reduce spending, no budget numbers 
and, most importantly, no ideas on job creation or on economic 
recovery.
  Mr. Speaker, we were sent here to create jobs and get the American 
economy back on track, both the Republicans and Democrats. Let's stop 
the political gimmickry, and let's get to the work of putting the 
American people back to work.

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