[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 12298]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    UNFINISHED BUSINESS IN CONGRESS

  (Mr. KILDEE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. KILDEE. Mr. Speaker, last week, Vice President Joe Biden said, 
``We are facing a simple reality; we are not doing the people's most 
urgent business.'' He is right. It is long past time that we take up 
this staggering list of unfinished business in this House.
  The people in my hometown of Flint still can't drink the water that 
comes out of their tap, yet House Republicans have pushed off any 
meaningful action that would send help to this community in its moment 
of greatest need. Further, the CDC will run out of resources to fight 
Zika, with almost 17,000 Americans, including 1,600 pregnant women, 
infected.
  Republicans in Congress continue to put their own partisan messaging 
agenda ahead of fighting Zika, helping the kids of Flint, and even with 
the opioid epidemic killing 78 people a day. We lose 78 young people a 
day. No action.
  We have bipartisan approaches to all of these problems. This body is 
called together to do the people's work. We should take up this 
legislation, and we should do it now, Mr. Speaker.

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