[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 5374]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                   100 DAYS OF REPUBLICAN LEADERSHIP

  (Mr. KILDEE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. KILDEE. Mr. Speaker, last week the House Republicans marked 100 
days of Republican control of both bodies of Congress: 100 days spent 
working for the wealthy special interests against the hard-working 
American families, 100 days where we saw our national security 
threatened when we came dangerously close to shutting down the 
Department of Homeland Security, 100 days where we saw Republicans vote 
to end the Medicare guarantee and turn it into a voucher program.
  Now, today, we are seeing House Republicans attempt to undermine the 
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, an entity designed to protect 
American consumers, by taking what was a bipartisan bill that came out 
of committee with nearly unanimous support and using it as a vehicle 
through the Committee on Rules to slash funding for this important 
Federal program.
  We had a bipartisan bill that could have been an important piece of 
legislation that we all could get behind, and it had to be used as a 
way to undermine this really important and essential government 
function of protecting the American consumer. We have just gone too far 
with this. We need to get back to doing the work that the American 
people sent us here to do.

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