Republicans Are All About Delay

Floor Speech

REPUBLICANS ARE ALL ABOUT DELAY -- (House of Representatives - June 14, 2007)

(Mr. PALLONE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute.)

Mr. PALLONE. Mr. Speaker, nothing could be further from the truth than the Republican claims of increased spending. The fact of the matter is, during the 12 years that they were in the majority spending on the budget on appropriations bills increased every year. It was a free-spending Congress. It was a Republican Congress that continued to put this country further and further into debt.

And now that the Democratic majority is trying to pass bills, what is happening on the other side? They're trying to delay it. That's all they're about is delay.

They couldn't pass a budget in the last Congress. They couldn't pass the appropriations bills before they lost control. They increased spending every year. Don't believe their rhetoric.

When Democrats took control, we vowed to do things differently. We vowed to pass a budget, and we did that earlier this year. We also vowed to pass every appropriations bill in a timely fashion, and that's what we're trying to do.

But rather than joining us and making this institution run more smoothly, congressional Republicans have chosen to constantly bring forward procedural motions to delay action on the spending bills that help us protect our homeland and help the veterans.

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