John Culberson: “Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Speaker, as we say in Texas, it's time to get a few things straight around here. We in the…”

“Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Speaker, as we say in Texas, it's time to get a few things straight around here. We in the House of Representatives passed a Defense Department appropriations bill back in June. We passed a Military Construction-VA appropriations bill back in June to make sure our veterans were taken care of. We passed legislation to protect our homeland. The Department of Homeland Security is fully funded. Everything the President asked for and everything the agencies asked for passed out of the House earlier this summer. We even passed an Energy and Water appropriations bill. They are sitting in the Senate, and they could have been passed back over here very, very easily because the Senate has been known to move like lightning when they need to. They've even deemed the bills before they've passed. Yet, in the democratic process, all of us have learned ever since elementary school that the democratic process requires compromise: two sides that disagree find a way to come closer together. For the first time today since 1979, the President of the United States reached out to the dictator in Tehran, who has sworn to erase Israel from the map. The President of the United States will talk to the dictator of Tehran, but he won't even negotiate with the House of Representatives--with the majority that was elected by our constituents to do everything in our power to delay, defund, or stop ObamaCare.…”