[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 6]
[House]
[Page 8763]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           THE GOP'S ORPHANS

  (Mr. CONNOLLY of Virginia asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. CONNOLLY of Virginia. Mr. Speaker, if Congress were a musical, 
then House Republicans would be Little Orphan Annie, singing, ``The sun 
will surely come out tomorrow,'' because with the urgent challenges 
facing this Nation, with Americans staring at an impending fiscal cliff 
and economic calamity, the GOP has simply said, ``Maybe we'll get to it 
tomorrow.''
  Let's revisit the little orphans the GOP has left behind:
  Needed transportation and jobs bill.
  The Medicare doc payment fix.
  The debt ceiling extension.
  The student loan interest rate hike.
  The sequester's arbitrary, indiscriminate cuts.
  The farm bill.
  Postal reform.
  The expiration of the Bush tax cuts, the AMT taxes, and the payroll 
tax cut which would collectively cost families $4,000 more next year.
  The impact to our economy and these poor little orphans is a 
staggering $7 trillion. The nonpartisan CBO has said failure to act on 
these will send America back into a recession.
  The Republicans need to recognize that every orphan deserves a home 
and work with us on responsible bipartisan solutions, or it's going to 
be ``a hard knock life for us.''

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