[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 1]
[House]
[Page 960]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




           CONGRESS SHOULD FOCUS ON AMERICA'S TOP PRIORITIES

  (Mr. KILDEE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. KILDEE. Mr. Speaker, just the night before last the President 
addressed this body and laid out an agenda that we all might not agree 
with certain elements, but there are elements that we could certainly 
act upon.
  We could take up an infrastructure bill. We could take up legislation 
that would assure every young person the ability to go to community 
college. We could take up the big questions that the American people 
expect us to address that are important to growing our economy. But we 
are not doing that.
  Instead, this morning, the leadership will present to this body 
legislation that will again seek to curtail the health care rights of 
women, not because you have some expectation that it will become law, 
but I believe because it is just another attempt to pander to the more 
extreme voices of the base.
  The President and others have called to us to elevate the dialogue in 
Congress and elevate our aspirations for our country.
  We have legislation before us that would put limitations on the 
choices that women have and even deny access to abortion services to 
save the life of a mother. This is the wrong direction. We need to 
reject it.

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