Bob Menendez: “this Republican Congress has been a failure. We have spent a lot of time, yes, on investigations and millions of dollars…”

“this Republican Congress has been a failure. We have spent a lot of time, yes, on investigations and millions of dollars on investigations, but not making a meaningful difference in people's lives. Madam Speaker, we have a balanced budget and a Federal surplus because of the Democratic deficit reduction program, yet my colleagues are 9 days overdue on a budget for America. No mayor, no Governor, no American family could do the same. My colleagues have failed families in this country in giving them protection from HMO abuses. My Republican colleagues have failed seniors by making sure that Social Security comes first in the context of the budget surplus. Madam Speaker, we Democrats do not want to let you go home and fail our children. We want to put 100,000 teachers back in the classrooms of this country to help educate our children and modernize our schools. If we have billions of dollars for tax cuts, we can have some money for the Nation's children that are going to make us competitive in the next century. Democrats will not let you leave and go home and campaign; we will stay here and work and make sure, we are going to ensure, that you do not commit the final failure, which would be failing our children.”