Bill Pascrell: “I thank the managers of this legislation. Unemployment. The deficit. Outsourcing. Higher education. Immigration. Tax…”

“I thank the managers of this legislation. Unemployment. The deficit. Outsourcing. Higher education. Immigration. Tax reform. Gun control. Medicare. Social Security. Transportation. A continuing resolution. Ukraine, Syria, Nigeria, Libya, Israel, Gaza, Iran. Instead of talking about any one of these, what are we spending one of the last 14 scheduled voting days before the election to discuss? We are talking about suing the President for implementing a policy that the majority supports. Go figure. What a colossal waste of time. What a colossal waste of taxpayer money. We know why the majority is focusing on this instead of trying to solve the country's problems. It is because they have no solutions. We haven't heard any, unless you are keeping them in a secret black box. Their only goal is to indulge the partisan impulses within your own party, 57 percent of whom want to impeach President Obama. The House of Representatives is apparently taking its marching orders from Sarah Palin. Good for us. The fact of the matter is that the American people are tired of the relentless partisanship that has led the Congress to having a lower approval rating than head lice. Our constituents want us to solve problems. That is one of the reasons we get paid. Our colleagues in the Senate today are voting on legislation I put forward to end tax breaks. We can't even get a hearing on this side of the building. These are commonsense solutions. The SPEAKER pro tempore.…”