On the recordMay 23, 2013
I thank my friend from North Carolina for yielding me the time, and really appreciate her leadership on this issue. You know, Mr. Speaker, I tell the young people when I speak to them back home, I say, turn on C-SPAN. If you don't have cable, don't buy cable; go to your friend's house to watch it. But turn on C-SPAN, and every person who comes to the House floor is going to say whatever they're doing today, no matter what it is that they're doing, they're doing it for the young people. They're doing it for that next generation, so the next generation can have a better life. And I hear that from every single one of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle. We want to come down here and we want to defeat this rule today and we want to defeat this bill today, and we want to do it for the young people. Well, Mr. Speaker, I'm down here for the young people of my district too. The young people of my district say, Rob, what about our prosperity? What about our future? What about fiscal responsibility? Why are you and previous generations doing to us what you're doing? How can we have a guaranteed access to opportunity, not guaranteed success, but guaranteed access to opportunity, going forward? And the answer is, when we get out of the business of playing political games with every single issue, every single day, and we get back into the business of providing some certainty. Mr. Speaker, you remember how we got in this predicament today.…
