[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 10858]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    STOP THE ENDLESS POLITICAL GAMES

  (Ms. McCOLLUM asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. McCOLLUM. Mr. Speaker, this ``do nothing'' Republican Tea Party 
Congress is killing jobs with its endless political games. This week's 
gimmick vote to repeal the Affordable Care Act is a meaningless vote to 
deny millions of Americans health care.
  Meanwhile, the House's failure to pass an extension of the wind 
energy tax credit to producers of all American energy is killing jobs. 
Thirty-seven thousand American jobs in the wind energy sector are at 
risk.
  Minnesota is a leader in wind energy production, but because of its 
refusal to act, this Congress is causing businesses to lay people off, 
killing jobs, and harming our clean energy future. The wind energy tax 
credit supports clean energy developers, manufacturers, and 
construction companies in America and in Minnesota.
  This Republican Tea Party Congress needs to stop the gimmicks, stop 
killing jobs, and, instead, immediately pass the wind energy tax credit 
to save jobs and to create more American jobs.

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