[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 3]
[House]
[Pages 4175-4176]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       GET AMERICA WORKING AGAIN

  (Mr. WALZ asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WALZ. Mr. Speaker, we've all been here since January, dutifully 
collecting paychecks, and no budget for

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the American public, creating uncertainties in the businesses and 
keeping job growth down. It's straining our national security forces 
and making difficult choices for our Reserve commanders to plan ahead. 
It's putting political ideology above job creation and facts.
  My Republican colleague friends have often told me what they thought 
last November's election meant and what the American people were 
saying. I will tell you what they weren't saying: We want you to go to 
Washington and put party above what's good for America; we want you to 
play chicken with America's economic future; we want you to protect 
millionaire CEO's and then blame the middle class and make sure you cut 
programs to their children; we want you to hold countless hearings on 
issues that do nothing except divide America and won't create a single 
job; oh, yeah, and we want you to point fingers at the other side and 
blame them, even though you run the House.
  Here's what I think they might have been saying: Be leaders, 
compromise for the good of the country, and get America working again.

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