Maxwell Frost: “Mr. Speaker, I support this rule and the resolution allowing the House to continue to work beyond the statutory deadline…”

“Mr. Speaker, I support this rule and the resolution allowing the House to continue to work beyond the statutory deadline of July 31. We have a lot more work to do and the American people want us to get it done. The American people want us to pass a Patients' Bill of Rights to ensure no one is denied medical services regardless of the bottom line. The American people want us to pass campaign finance reform to take our political system back from the powerful special interests and give it to the American citizens. The American people want us to protect Social Security and Medicare before they collapse beginning in the year 2015. The American people want us to finish the Juvenile Justice bill in order to get the funding in place now to protect our schools before classes start up in the fall. Although we only have another week before Congress goes into recess, I hope my Republican colleagues will consider taking up these important issues before any others. I urge my colleagues to support this rule.”