Frank Pallone: “For the fourth time this month, the Congress is considering a resolution to temporarily fund the government. Now…”

“For the fourth time this month, the Congress is considering a resolution to temporarily fund the government. Now, Republicans claim that they are working very hard to get these appropriations bills passed, but the American people should know that today is our only full day of work in the Congress this week. The Republicans will send us home tonight, and we will not be back again until next Tuesday night. And I think the Republicans should be embarrassed. They simply cannot govern. Keep in mind that between today and next Tuesday, the Republicans are deploying their members to go out and campaign. They are not hunkered down in some room trying to figure out the appropriations bills. No, they are going out to fund-raisers and political events rather than doing the work that they were elected and paid to do. Bowing to the will of special interests, Republicans have stopped their work on HMO reform, on prescription drugs, on gun safety, on education. They simply cannot get the job done.”