[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 13631]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                             DO-NOTHING GOP

  (Mr. CICILLINE asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. CICILLINE. Mr. Speaker, tomorrow, the Republican Speaker John 
Boehner will adjourn the House, and Congress will leave town for 5 full 
weeks. I rise to urge Speaker Boehner to cancel this recess and keep us 
in session, so we can address the urgent issues facing the American 
people.
  Democrats have a clear list of priorities that will jump-start the 
middle class. We want to renew emergency unemployment benefits, raise 
the minimum wage, fix our broken immigration system, reauthorize the 
Ex-Im Bank, invest in repairing and rebuilding America's 
infrastructure, and make sure women earn equal pay for equal work.
  We have an opportunity to lift millions of hardworking Americans out 
of poverty, create jobs, and grow the economy by passing these bills 
that will help the middle class.
  It is a complete dereliction of duty for Speaker Boehner to adjourn 
the House and leave town without addressing any of these issues, but 
what is even worse, instead of getting these things done for the 
American people, the Republicans will take up a bill to sue the 
President for moving too slowly to enact a bill that they oppose, that 
they have tried to stop over 50 times.
  You can't make this stuff up. The American people deserve better, and 
the American people cannot afford 5 weeks of inaction.

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