[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 13114]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         WE NEED TO GET TO WORK

  (Mr. COURTNEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. COURTNEY. Mr. Speaker, this August I was home holding town hall 
meetings, meeting with chambers, senior centers. The message was the 
same: Congress should stop the bickering, get to work, and get some 
results.
  Coming back here, we've got a lot of work to do. We've got a budget 
that's going to expire at the end of this month, transportation and 
infrastructure which will expire, Federal aviation, small business, 
research and development, disaster relief--and, by the way, the post 
office is about to go bankrupt. Yet with all of these to-do items and 
21 days left in this month, the leadership of this House has only 
scheduled 5 full working days. That is a schedule that would make Homer 
Simpson blush.
  Mr. Speaker, it is time for the leadership of this House to scrap 
that schedule, get us to work, get these issues done, create some 
certainty in this country and some confidence that Washington can get 
the job done and stop the lackadaisical do-nothing schedule which is 
leading this country totally without trust and confidence about whether 
or not we as a Nation can address the challenges facing us.

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