[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 10]
[House]
[Pages 14512-14513]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY

  (Mr. YARMUTH asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. YARMUTH. Mr. Speaker, my colleagues from across the aisle like to 
talk a lot about personal responsibility, but their decision to adjourn 
Congress for nearly 2 months shows how little they actually understand 
the concept.
  Congress is facing serious deadlines right now, and we should be 
dealing with the problems the American people sent us here to solve. 
Instead, Republican leadership has decided that we should go home 
without doing any of it and taking with us one of the worst report 
cards in American history.
  For more than a year now, Republicans have ignored a plan to create 
2.6 million new jobs and protect another 1.6 million existing jobs. 
They won't even bring it to the floor for a vote. Right now we could 
bring to the floor and send to the President's desk a bill that would 
protect tax cuts for 98 percent of the American people and 97 percent 
of small businesses, but instead we're going home.

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  Republicans seem content to take our country off the fiscal cliff, 
which will hobble our economy, raise taxes on millions of working 
families, and once again shift the responsibility of our deficit to 
those who can least afford it.
  Mr. Speaker, Republicans can't preach personal responsibility if 
they're not willing to accept it themselves.

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