[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 2]
[House]
[Pages 1629-1630]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          GROWING OUR ECONOMY

  (Mr. KILDEE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. KILDEE. Mr. Speaker, it is week five of this new Congress, and 
the American people are still waiting for action to create jobs. 
Instead of doing that, Republicans seem focused on appeasing and 
pandering to the most extreme voices in their party. Even some 
Republicans are appalled by this Republican agenda now that they 
control Congress.
  One Republican Member told the National Journal:

       Week one, Republicans had a Speaker election that did not 
     go well; week two, Republicans got into a big fight about 
     deporting

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     children; week three, Republicans are now talking about rape 
     and incest and reportable rapes and incest for minors . . . I 
     just can't wait for week four.

  Now we are in week five, and the new Republican Congress is still 
working. It doesn't look like we are going to see a jobs bill or an 
infrastructure bill. Instead, today, for the 56th time, we will see a 
vote on the floor of the House to take away health care for millions of 
Americans.
  The Republican leadership needs to stop putting the politics of the 
extreme rightwing of their party in the fore and get back to the work 
of the American people.

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