On the recordDecember 7, 2011
Madam Speaker, the last time the Republicans controlled the House back in 2006, a newspaper columnist called it ``the Seinfeld Congress,'' because like Seinfeld, which was a show about nothing, the 109th Congress was a Congress about nothing. Absolutely nothing got done. Now the House Republicans have upped the ante. They have an agenda filled with Seinfeld legislation--a bunch of bills about nothing. Tomorrow, for example, we're considering the so-called farm dust bill. Now, ignore for a moment the fact that it's more about mines and smelters and concrete plants than it is about farms, House Republicans want to ban an EPA rule that the EPA administrator has said she has no intention of issuing. Why are we wasting time prohibiting a rule that's not being issued when we've got real problems like a struggling economy and millions of people out of work. As Seinfeld might say, yada, yada, yada. ____________________
