On the recordJuly 25, 2014
Thank you for yielding me the time and for being down here with me today. I hate that you can't see my charts today. They are not particularly colorful or exciting, but they are important in that they are going to tell the story of something that we have gotten done together. Now, I don't want you to think I am just making something up down here on the floor of the House, Mr. Speaker. I know you are probably thinking about 326 bills that we have passed here in the House that are still sitting over there in the Senate gathering dust, having received no action whatsoever. You might be thinking about the work going on in the Rules Committee, where we are suing the President for his failure to implement the law as he crafted it, drafted it, and signed it. You might be thinking about the border crisis that is happening right now that has been marked by so much inaction. I don't mean to say that there are not lots of things that need to be worked on in this body. There are. {time} 1415 I wanted to take just a few minutes this afternoon to talk about some of the rare successes that we have had, and it is a success that is a long time coming. I represent Metro Atlanta, Mr. Speaker, kind of the northeastern suburbs there in Metro Atlanta, and right down I-75 and then down I-16, you get to the great and historic city of Savannah. Folks think about Savannah for all sorts of different things.…
