Ted Deutch: “I thank my friend from Colorado for yielding. I rise to urge the defeat of the motion on ordering the previous question…”

“I thank my friend from Colorado for yielding. I rise to urge the defeat of the motion on ordering the previous question on this rule. Most Americans would be outraged to see the 113th Congress, on track to be the most unproductive Congress in this Nation's history, return from a 5-week recess, only to waste more time. Yet, that is what is happening today with the GOP's 53rd attack on the Affordable Care Act. We could be doing so much more. We could stand up against special interests and advance the American people's priorities. We could raise the minimum wage to prevent big corporations from paying workers starvation wages. We could stand up to the gun lobby and pass background checks to stop criminals from buying guns online. We could stand up to companies that use fancy corporate inversions to skirt their responsibility to pay taxes towards American infrastructure, American schools, and American research. Yet, these priorities will just as surely go ignored this 113th Congress as they did in the 112th Congress. Mr. Speaker, it is no coincidence that we are not dealing with the people's business today. Since the 2010 Supreme Court decision in Citizens United, Congress has become mired in dysfunction. The people's House is now paralyzed by the threat of attacks from corporations and a handful of billionaires with their Super PACs and their secret front groups.…”