[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 19107]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         THE SEINFELD CONGRESS

  (Mr. DOYLE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DOYLE. Madam Speaker, the last time the Republicans controlled 
the House back in 2006, a newspaper columnist called it ``the Seinfeld 
Congress,'' because like Seinfeld, which was a show about nothing, the 
109th Congress was a Congress about nothing. Absolutely nothing got 
done.
  Now the House Republicans have upped the ante. They have an agenda 
filled with Seinfeld legislation--a bunch of bills about nothing. 
Tomorrow, for example, we're considering the so-called farm dust bill. 
Now, ignore for a moment the fact that it's more about mines and 
smelters and concrete plants than it is about farms, House Republicans 
want to ban an EPA rule that the EPA administrator has said she has no 
intention of issuing.
  Why are we wasting time prohibiting a rule that's not being issued 
when we've got real problems like a struggling economy and millions of 
people out of work.
  As Seinfeld might say, yada, yada, yada.

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