[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 10879]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                     REPUBLICANS' RECKLESS BEHAVIOR

  (Mr. YARMUTH asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. YARMUTH. Madam Speaker, we have a lot of Americans who engage in 
very reckless behavior; but generally, that reckless behavior only 
affects them or maybe their friends or neighbors.
  The Republican majority in this Congress is reckless enough that they 
want to endanger 310 million Americans; reckless enough that they will 
refuse to pay our debts no matter what kind of a deal is worked out; 
reckless enough to make us default on the full faith and credit of the 
United States; reckless enough to raise interest rates on not only our 
debt, thereby making the deficit worse, but on every American who has a 
credit card or an adjustable rate mortgage or is borrowing any money; 
and reckless enough, according to a bipartisan panel that came to this 
body last week, to take away 10 percent of GDP, costing this country 
hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of jobs in the month of August 
alone.
  We have a responsibility to the American people to perform for the 
interests of their lives and this country. And reckless behavior--
refusing to raise the debt limit of the United States is about as 
reckless as you can get. We need to act responsibly.

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