[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 12533]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                               DEBT LIMIT

  (Mr. HIMES asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HIMES. Mr. Speaker, last night the Republican majority in this 
House, without the support of a single Democrat, did something very 
dangerous--and I am not talking about the pernicious cuts that would 
damage the least fortunate in our society. I am not talking about an 
ill-conceived balanced budget amendment that would surely result in our 
default. We should debate those things, and people of good will 
disagree how we do them.
  I am talking about the provision of that bill that will bring us back 
in 6 months to have this discussion again while Americans lose billions 
of dollars in their retirement accounts, while businesses and our 
markets face uncertainty. We will do this in 6 more months because of 
the Republicans.
  Now I am a House Democrat. Don't listen to me on this. Listen to the 
Wall Street Journal editorial page. That Murdochian mouthpiece of 
malicious malarkey wrote, ``Republicans are not looking like adults to 
whom voters can entrust the government.''
  Mr. Speaker, according to the Wall Street Journal editorial page, 
that's just the way it is.

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