[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 13385]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    RESOLUTION TO SUE THE PRESIDENT

  (Mr. COURTNEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. COURTNEY. Mr. Speaker, 9.5 million Americans are unemployed. 
America's roads and rails are crumbling. College graduates are saddled 
with $1 trillion in debt that they can't refinance. Ukraine and the 
Middle East are on fire. And what does the Speaker have lined up for us 
in the final 3 days before his 5-week recess for August? He wants us to 
pass a resolution to sue the President for actions he doesn't like. 
Mainstream legal experts have said repeatedly this lawsuit is both 
ludicrous and dangerous, but what it mostly is is wasteful.
  The Speaker's shutdown cost the American economy $24 billion. The 50 
ACA repeal votes have cost $79 million. The DOMA lawsuit lined pockets 
of lawyers at $500 an hour, billable hours.
  We should cancel the recess. We should go to work in terms of 
addressing the issues of jobs in this country. We should stop lining 
the pockets of politically connected lawyers. Let's stand up for the 
middle class. Let's fix America's infrastructure, and let's get this 
country moving again and skip the lawsuit.

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