[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 10]
[House]
[Pages 14403-14404]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       ``MY WAY OR THE HIGHWAY''

  (Mr. POE of Texas asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, the President says he will negotiate 
with Syria over chemical weapons. He is negotiating with the Russians 
about negotiating with the Syrians over nuclear weapons. He has offered 
to talk and compromise with Iran over nuclear weapons--but the 
President it seems says, I will not negotiate with those in the House 
of Representatives. No compromise on the debt. I will not negotiate 
with America.
  Too bad the President is more interested with negotiation and 
compromise with Russia, Syria, Iran, and now the United Nations than he 
is in working with Members of the House of Representatives and the 
American people to keep the government from shutting down.
  It has been mentioned today of this philosophy of ``my way or the 
highway.'' Well, that's the President's philosophy. It's my way, says 
the President, or it's the highway.
  He won't talk to us about it because he is out campaigning about how 
ObamaCare is really good for the Nation. He is driving the train wreck 
of stubbornness which will lead, and has led, to chaos in America.
  Come home, Mr. President. Let's sit down and talk and negotiate about

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what we are going to do over the debt limit and the continuing 
resolution.
  And that's just the way it is.

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