Maxwell Frost: “Mr. Speaker, 6 years after the Republican majority took control of this House, the Republican leadership has yet to find…”

“Mr. Speaker, 6 years after the Republican majority took control of this House, the Republican leadership has yet to find a way to effectively manage the business of the House. It is 3 days before the end of the fiscal year and 9 days before the Congress is scheduled to end, yet only 2 of the 13 appropriation bills have been sent to the President to be signed; we have yet to consider on this floor the funding bills we need to help people find housing or have safe transportation to get to work or plow their ground to produce food or learn the basic skills to be able to get and hold a job in the modern day workplace. Last night, the members of the Committee on Rules were held hostage for hours past the last vote so that we might be available to bail out the Republican leadership so that the House might have some business to conduct today. Why should the Committee on Rules be held here until 9:30? For one very simple reason, Mr. Speaker. And that is because the majority party still has not figured out how to run this institution in an efficient manner and could not find anything to do on the floor today.”