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Congress' Approval Rating

Floor Speech

Date: July 14, 2016
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Guns Health and Health Care Drugs Legislative Branch

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Ms. DeGETTE. Mr. Speaker, a recent poll showed that Congress has an approval rating of 12 percent. Nobody in their right mind would ever think that is a good rating.

It is no wonder that our poll ratings are so low. We have left now for 7 weeks--52 days, as you have heard--without funding Zika, despite the fact that it is spreading throughout the Southwest United States and the territories.

We have left now for 52 days--7 weeks--without passing commonsense gun safety legislation, despite the terrible tragedies we are seeing in all of our communities every day.

We have left town without addressing the opioid epidemic in any meaningful way through funding.

Now, listen. Our constituents didn't send us here to go on vacation. They have sent us here to do the work of the people. And anybody who thinks that the people--our constituents--are not going to notice that we are not here doing this work for 7 weeks doesn't understand what the House Democratic Caucus intends to do for the next 2 months, because we intend to remind our constituents every single day of the job that we were elected to do.

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