Rob Bishop: “I have a great deal of sympathy for the gentlelady from Guam, and on the Resources Committee where that bill still is, I…”

“I have a great deal of sympathy for the gentlelady from Guam, and on the Resources Committee where that bill still is, I will work with you on that, but I do object to unanimous consent. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman does not yield. Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, let me again express my disappointment with the lack of time that we are being allowed to debate some very, very important issues that impact everybody, every single person in our country: issues of war; issues of granting the executive branch this new broad authority to be able to go to war any time they want without even consulting the United States Congress, giving them these unilateral powers which I believe is not what our Founding Fathers ever anticipated; issues involving Libya; and I could go on and on and on, not to mention some of the issues that were not allowed to be brought up at all, and Ms. Bordallo just mentioned one of them. I don't understand why that was not made in order. But in this House of Representatives, since the new majority took over, we debate trivial issues passionately and important ones not at all. You know, we spent hours debating whether we should defund National Public Radio. But on the issue of Afghanistan, what our policy should be in Afghanistan, we have over 100,000 troops in Afghanistan, we are borrowing over $8.2 billion a month--a month, a month--to pay for Afghanistan, that is all going on our credit card. That is going, adding to our deficit, to our debt.…”