Congresswoman Dingell Calls for Action on the Nation's Most Pressing Challenges

Floor Speech

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Mrs. DINGELL. Mr. Speaker, I rise today as the House of Representatives prepares to leave Washington for seven weeks--52 days-- without addressing some of the most critical issues we face.

Instead of working together--Republicans and Democrats--toward meaningful solutions to protect the American people, Congress spent this week debating a bunch of bills that will never become law.

Meanwhile, we have failed to meaningfully respond to the Flint water crisis, which has left families in my home state of Michigan reeling for months.

We have failed to provide critical resources to respond to the Zika health crisis.

And we have failed to come together around reasonable solutions to the gun violence epidemic plaguing this country.

I am embarrassed to be a Member of this body.

We need to do the job the American people elected us to do.

We need to come together to find solutions to the biggest problems we face.

That's what we were sent here to do. That's what the American people expect and it's what they deserve.

Let's do our job.

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