[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 2]
[House]
[Page 2062]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                            ``GIT 'ER DONE''

  (Mr. MICA asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MICA. Mr. Speaker, let me speak to transportation and what we're 
doing in Congress on the Republican side. The other side of the aisle, 
the Democrat majority, had responsibility over transportation, and huge 
majorities for 4 years and control for 2 years of the White House, the 
Senate, the House of Representatives.
  This week the President signed it into law, and we got it done. As 
the Cable Guy says, we're going to ``git 'er done.'' And we're getting 
her done.
  But you wouldn't know that the FAA bill was signed into law by the 
President. He signed it in the dark. He failed to send me even a 
bouquet of flowers or candy on Valentine's Day when he did it. He 
didn't want the American people to know that we succeeded in getting 
legislation that is responsible for 10 percent of our economy done, and 
we got it done without tax increases, cutting $3,700 subsidies for 
airline tickets. We're going to do the same thing with the 
transportation bill because it will put people to work and it will 
lower energy costs.
  So, Mr. Speaker, there's more, as Paul Harvey said, there's the rest 
of the story, and that's part of the story I came to tell you and the 
rest of the country and the Congress.

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