[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 9]
[House]
[Pages 12739-12740]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                            GOVERNMENT WASTE

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair recognizes the gentleman from

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Pennsylvania (Mr. Fitzpatrick) for 5 minutes.
  Mr. FITZPATRICK. Mr. Speaker, I rise this morning in strong support 
of the eight bills before the House today or, more importantly, in 
support of what they represent, which is commonsense government reform.
  As a Representative of the hardworking taxpayers in southeastern 
Pennsylvania, it is my duty to make sure that they are getting value 
for every dollar that they send to the Nation's Capital. Right now, our 
Federal Government seems to find better ways to waste money than to 
save it. The culture of systemic waste, abuse, and lack of 
accountability needs to end.
  We have the opportunity this week. We can vote to streamline the 
Federal Government to make it work for the American taxpayer. The Stop 
Government Abuse legislative package being considered today works to 
rein in widespread waste and inefficiency throughout Washington. These 
bills represent commonsense, bipartisan solutions that actually solve 
problems.
  After this week, Members will leave for a month to head back to our 
districts. Many of us are going to be attending events and hosting town 
halls to facilitate conversations with our constituents. I am eager to 
report to them that, despite our differences, this body was able to 
come together to support so many commonsense reforms. So I urge my 
colleagues to support the bills being considered here and to vote to 
begin restoring faith in government.

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