On the recordJuly 17, 2019
In the last few days, we spent a lot of time in session in the U.S. Congress reviewing and debating tweets and personal comments of individuals. In the meantime, policy debate and the urgent work of the people are excluded from the agenda. As I speak, among other things, we are apprehending some 3,000 immigrants per day on our southern border, we will lose around 130 people today due to the opioid crisis, and our national debt will increase another $3 billion or so in just the next 24 hours. It is clear that the majority leadership does not want to have policy initiatives that are desired by our current administration to even get a debate, but, Mr. Speaker, we have an election process to deal with those concerns. It is our job to do the people's work. Please, let's go to work. ____________________
