[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 14400]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           WE NEED LEADERSHIP

  (Mr. WALBERG asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. WALBERG. Mr. Speaker, we sincerely need true leadership at this 
time--great problems, great challenges, great divisions--and yet our 
President's first call last Friday to House leadership clearly 
indicated, in his own words, that he would not negotiate. How can this 
be leadership?
  Sixty-one percent of citizens polled recently want spending cuts tied 
to the debt ceiling bill. Bill, in my town hall meeting yesterday 
morning, said:

       My wife is very sick. I pay $900 a month for my health 
     insurance. I need that. But I want you to go to Washington 
     and end the spending. Move our country forward. Shut down 
     ObamaCare.

  Mr. President, you won't negotiate? You negotiated with Mr. Putin and 
Mr. Assad. You've negotiated with the U.N. on an arms treaty 
threatening our Second Amendment liberty. Why would you not negotiate 
with the people's House and the people who sent us to restore fiscal 
sanity, economic opportunity, and liberty?
  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Terry). The Chair will remind Members 
that remarks in debate must be addressed to the Chair and not to others 
in the second person.

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