Andrea Seastrand: “when I was elected to this great body just 3 short months ago, I made a commitment to my constituents to fight…”

“when I was elected to this great body just 3 short months ago, I made a commitment to my constituents to fight diligently for the ideas that I believe in and to be just as unrelenting in my fight against those ideas that are not good for my district, my State, and our country. But I must say that I find the behavior by some Members on the other side of the aisle a bit bizarre. They fight to stall legislation that they eventually vote to pass. I have maintained that gridlock is not necessarily a bad situation. If you oppose something, try to defeat it with every weapon at your disposal. But when a group purposely stalls a bill simply for partisan gain, that is pretense without principle. Some of the antics on the other side of the aisle make you wonder who is devising their strategy. We are working for real change. We kept our promises by passing the balanced budget amendment last week and are working this week to pass the unfunded mandates bill that will stop the Federal Government from not only passing the buck, but passing the bill to our States and localities. Mr. Speaker, we should stop the delaying tactics. The American people want us to end the bickering and go on about the people's business.”