[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 5924]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         A REALLY DUMB QUESTION

  (Mr. MURPHY of Connecticut asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MURPHY of Connecticut. Mr. Speaker, the question before the House 
today was whether we were going to take money for preventive services 
for women and children and give it to college students. That's a really 
dumb question.
  It's not dumb because of the recipient of the money. We need, right 
now, to make a change here in this Congress so that millions of college 
students all across the country don't see a dramatic increase in the 
cost of college. My wife and I are amongst those that are paying back 
our student loans today, and we know what those college students know: 
that $5,000 over the next 10 years could break the bank.
  No, it was a dumb question because there was another question that we 
could have asked. We could have asked whether we should take billions 
in tax subsidies for oil companies and instead turn those dollars 
around to needy college students. That is a smart question, a smart 
question with a pretty easy answer.

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