Mike Collins: “They have been pulling at my coattails, but I think at this time they are going to hold back. Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker…”

“They have been pulling at my coattails, but I think at this time they are going to hold back. Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time to close. Mr. Speaker, let me put this in perspective for everybody. We can have this conversation here and maybe people can do press releases after we have a vote on it, but I think we all know that this bill is going nowhere, and it is going nowhere fast. So we are essentially wasting our time, we are wasting taxpayer dollars, and we are doing so at a moment when we have some serious challenges and serious crises facing our country. I mentioned gun violence. My friends don't want to do anything about that; although, according to the press, they want to bring a resolution to slap our wrists. That is their outrage over all the gun violence that we have seen, the massacres that we have seen in this country. I find that stunning, quite frankly. I mean, it takes my breath away that, in the aftermath of all that has gone on, that that is the best they can do. Nonetheless, that is their solution, and it is another waste of time. We have a crisis in Flint, Michigan, where people still can't turn on their faucets. We are not talking about a country halfway around the world. We are talking about a community here in the United States of America where clean water ought to be a right, and yet we can't seem to schedule the time to do anything to help solve that problem.…”