[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 4126]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




             CONGRESS NEEDS TO DO ITS JOB AND PASS A BUDGET

  (Mr. KILDEE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. KILDEE. Mr. Speaker, by law, Congress must enact a budget 
resolution by April 15. That is Friday. Yet, after months of promising 
to return to so-called regular order, Speaker Ryan has failed to bring 
a budget to the floor of this House for us to act upon.
  I don't know about you, but my constituents, the people I work for, 
are tired of a do-nothing Congress.
  The Republican majority has failed to pass a budget resolution. We 
need a resolution that supports working families, a budget that 
supports growing the economy in this country. But instead of that, the 
Republicans have decided not to pass a budget at all.
  Under this Republican majority, rather than working with those of us 
on this side of the aisle and finding some common ground around a 
budget resolution, the majority has been held hostage to the most 
extreme voices within their conference--the Tea Party members. And 
because they want to cut Medicare, change it in ways that I think would 
be destructive to our economy, they can't bring a budget to the floor 
of the House of Representatives.
  We need to do our job.

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