[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 14576]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      SENATE NEEDS TO DO THEIR JOB

  (Mr. CULBERSON asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. CULBERSON. Mr. Speaker, my colleague from Oregon is correct. It 
is important that the Congress get our work done on making sure that 
our military is fully funded and paid, that our veterans, the military 
construction, the bases around the world are taken care of, that 
Homeland Security is taken care of. But we have done that. It has 
already been done in the House.
  The Senate has had our Homeland Security appropriations bills for 
over 3 months. The Senate has had possession of a military construction 
and veterans appropriations bill for over 3 months. The Senate has also 
had the Department of Defense appropriations bill for over 3 months. 
Yet they have irresponsibly chosen to just sit on them to set them up 
for this moment, because they know that House Republicans are devoted 
to delaying and defunding ObamaCare, one of the most destructive pieces 
of legislation ever passed by Congress that will destroy jobs and 
cripple this economy and socialize the greatest health care system the 
world has ever created.
  We are committed as constitutional conservatives to doing everything 
in our power to make sure that we delay and defund ObamaCare. But at 
the same time, we have already done our job in making sure that our 
military--our men and women in uniform--have everything they need if 
the Senate will only do their job.

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