[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 14512]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                 DYSFUNCTIONAL HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

  (Mr. MORAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. MORAN. Mr. Speaker, I want to talk about the number 47, not as in 
the percentage of Americans, the soldiers and students and elderly and 
working poor, many of whom are paying more in total taxes than Mr. 
Romney is paying on his tens of millions of dollars in annual income 
but who, nevertheless, he seems to consider to be slackers. No, I'm 
talking about 47 as in the number of days left before the election, in 
the context of the fact that we have 1 more day that we will be in 
session. The most basic and fundamental responsibilities our 
constituents sent us to Washington to address are being left totally 
unresolved. Never have I seen a House of Representatives so 
unproductive and so dysfunctional, and I served during the so-called 
``Gingrich Revolution.''
  The fact is that today the House Republican leadership and too many 
of its rank-and-file Members seem to think that economic stimulus, 
which is vitally needed in this economy, is a dirty word, and that the 
Federal Government is some kind of alien enterprise. Their approach is 
to do nothing, and that's what we've done for the last 2 years--
nothing.

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