[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 11011]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




       THE REPUBLICAN ANTI-JOB AGENDA AND THE BUDGET NEGOTIATIONS

  (Mr. CONNOLLY of Virginia asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. CONNOLLY of Virginia. Mr. Speaker, 27 weeks the Republicans have 
been in charge of this House, and they have not brought a single jobs 
bill to the floor.
  Instead, House leadership has set its eyes on dogmatically asserting 
its goals of repealing health care reform and dismantling even the most 
basic of environmental regulations. Republicans have brought us so far 
down the path of mass deregulation that even the most basic safeguards 
are under threat.
  They have brought forth insipid legislation to repeal bulb efficiency 
standards and are still fighting against essential clean water 
regulation.
  The reality is that both of these efforts will kill jobs and hurt 
innovation, but the Republicans seem perfectly comfortable in sticking 
to the rhetoric of anti-regulation regardless of whom it harms.
  We have gone so far down this path that the anti-tax dogma of the 
House majority is now bringing debt ceiling negotiations to a terrible, 
terrible brink of catastrophe. They would rather preserve tax breaks 
for their corporate jet and oil companies than compromise on a plan 
that will benefit the middle class of America by better distributing 
that tax burden.
  It's wrong. Let's come to the table.

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