[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 5677]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                 GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN: EFFECT AND CAUSE

  (Ms. EDWARDS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. EDWARDS. Mr. Speaker, there have been a lot of quotes on this 
floor, so this one goes out to our young people and our seniors and our 
servicemembers and Federal workers who stand to be affected by a 
government shutdown. It's a lesson for my Republican colleagues 
courtesy of the White Stripes, a little ``Effect and Cause'':

  ``I guess you have to have a problem
  If you want to invent a contraption
  First you cause a train wreck
  Then you put me in traction.
  Well, first came an action
  And then a reaction
  But you can't switch around
  For your own satisfaction.
  You burnt my house down, then got mad
  At my reaction?
  It's that you just can't take the effect
  And make it the cause.''
  So for my Republican colleagues who want to shut the government down 
for the effect you caused, you learn this White Stripes lesson first:
  ``If you're headin' to the grave
  You don't blame the hearse.
  You built a house of cards
  And got shocked when you saw them fall.
  You seem to forget
  Just how this song started.
  You just can't take the effect and make it the cause.''

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