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Resolution to Sue the President

Floor Speech

Date: July 29, 2014
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Unemployed and Low-Income Employment and Affirmative Action Foreign Affairs Infrastructure Government Budget and Spending Legal

Mr. COURTNEY. Mr. Speaker, 9.5 million Americans are unemployed. America's roads and rails are crumbling. College graduates are saddled with $1 trillion in debt that they can't refinance. Ukraine and the Middle East are on fire. And what does the Speaker have lined up for us in the final 3 days before his 5-week recess for August? He wants us to pass a resolution to sue the President for actions he doesn't like. Mainstream legal experts have said repeatedly this lawsuit is both ludicrous and dangerous, but what it mostly is is wasteful.

The Speaker's shutdown cost the American economy $24 billion. The 50 ACA repeal votes have cost $79 million. The DOMA lawsuit lined pockets of lawyers at $500 an hour, billable hours.

We should cancel the recess. We should go to work in terms of addressing the issues of jobs in this country. We should stop lining the pockets of politically connected lawyers. Let's stand up for the middle class. Let's fix America's infrastructure, and let's get this country moving again and skip the lawsuit.


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