[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 13063]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         CONGRESS' PERFORMANCE

  (Mr. DINGELL asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DINGELL. Mr. Speaker, I am saddened by what I heard while I was 
home in August. People are disappointed with us, their elected 
representatives, and they want us to do our constitutional duty of 
solving the Nation's problems and to start working together.
  They want to get America moving again. They want the problems of the 
economy addressed. They want jobs, they want opportunity, and they want 
a government that works for the good of the country.
  Is there anyone amongst us here that is proud that we could not 
produce a budget? that we caused the downgrading of the U.S. Government 
securities? that we caused appalling disorder and confusion in the 
market, stifling economic growth and job creation and contributing to 
the hopelessness and the misfortune of millions of Americans?
  Failed leadership and failed followership--we owe the country better. 
We must do better.
  I hope that those of you here who feel ashamed of our performance, as 
I do, will join together. It is our duty to solve the Nation's problems 
and to stop this nonsense. If we do not, the people in their righteous 
and justified outrage will get rid of us all. And well they should.

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