[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 14762]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                   REPUBLICANS: CYNICAL, NOT SERIOUS

  (Mr. BLUMENAUER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. BLUMENAUER. Mr. Speaker, as we approach the government shutdown 
Republicans manufactured by sending a proposal to the Senate they know 
is unacceptable and is not workable, there is an opportunity for 
Republican colleagues to show that they are serious and not cynical:
  They could eliminate from their budget the savings of a half trillion 
dollars that ObamaCare would generate;
  If they are serious and not cynical, they could bring their own 
spending bills to the floor. Remember, they abruptly stopped working on 
the spending bills last summer as they figured out that the T-HUD bill 
was so bad that their own Members wouldn't vote for it;
  If they are truly serious about working in a cooperative fashion and 
negotiating out differences, then the Republicans should allow a 
conference committee to be appointed to work out the differences 
between the House and the Senate Budgets.
  If you are serious about working together to solve problems, why 
don't you work together to solve problems?

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