[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 13245]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       A CALL FOR BIPARTISANSHIP

  (Mr. PALLONE asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. PALLONE. Mr. Speaker, I listened to my Republican colleague in 
disbelief because the fact of the matter is that the Republican House 
has now adjourned, or at least is trying to adjourn, and go home for 5 
weeks, as far as I can tell.
  The fact of the matter is that when you go home and you talk to your 
constituents, they talk about jobs, they talk about the economy. When 
the gentleman says, Oh, we already passed a bill and why doesn't the 
Senate take it up, he knows very well that in order to accomplish 
anything here in terms of tax cuts and extending tax cuts for the 
middle class, that we have to get together on a bipartisan basis with 
the Democrats. That's simply not happening here.
  The Senate has passed bills that seek to create jobs, larger 
infrastructure bills, bills that would actually send money back to the 
States so that we can rehire some of our public employees, our police, 
our firemen, and our teachers.
  The fact of the matter is that the House Republicans really do not 
want to do anything to create jobs, whether it's in the public sector 
or it's in the private sector. We see no action here on the House side 
under the Republican leadership that would do anything to stimulate the 
economy or create jobs.

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