[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 6]
[House]
[Page 7898]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




              THE FAILURE OF HOUSE REPUBLICANS IN CONGRESS

  (Mr. KILDEE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. KILDEE. Mr. Speaker, Republicans in Congress have failed to pass 
a budget or to adequately address the health crises that we have 
brewing in this country, including one in my own hometown of Flint, 
Michigan.
  Now, this week, Speaker Ryan is trying to distract the focus from 
Republican Party leader and presumptive nominee Donald Trump's racist 
and bigoted remarks toward Mexican Americans and Muslim Americans.
  Releasing white papers is not enough to offset what the leader of 
your party is saying every day about American citizens.
  Last week, for example, Donald Trump questioned the ability of an 
American Federal judge to do his job--this is a direct quote--because 
``he's a Mexican.'' He even doubled down on this extreme position, 
questioning whether a Muslim American judge could also properly do his 
job based on his religion, based on his beliefs. These are deeply 
troubling, racist, un-American comments that cannot be tolerated, that 
cannot be accepted.
  Honestly, if I felt as if the leadership in the House were doing its 
job to overcome that so as to do its own job and not align with those 
sorts of statements by allowing its own legislation to fail because of 
the willingness to fly the Confederate flag, it would be far more 
acceptable.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Jenkins of West Virginia). The Chair 
will remind Members to refrain from engaging in personalities towards 
presumptive nominees for the Office of the President.

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