November 14, 2019 - Issue: Vol. 165, No. 182 — Daily Edition116th Congress (2019 - 2020) - 1st Session

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           DEMOCRATS DELIVERING ON AGENDA FOR AMERICAN PEOPLE

  (Mr. CICILLINE asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. CICILLINE. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to remind our Republican 
colleagues how much work has been done by the House Democrats.
  There has been a lot of discussion about the ongoing impeachment 
inquiry. While that work is being done, we have been hard at work, 
delivering on our agenda for the people of this country: driving down 
healthcare costs, driving down the cost of prescription drugs, raising 
family incomes with a real emphasis on rebuilding the crumbling 
infrastructure of America, taking on self-dealing and corruption in 
Washington, and getting the government to work for the people of this 
country again.
  In that effort, we have passed over 300 pieces of legislation: 10 
healthcare bills, 4 that will reduce the cost of prescription drugs; 
raising family incomes by raising the minimum wage for 33 million 
Americans and providing equal pay for equal work; universal background 
checks; restoring net neutrality; preventing our separating out of the 
Paris climate accord; a new veterans tax credit; and on and on. Eighty 
percent of those bills are sitting on Mitch McConnell's desk, awaiting 
action.
  Maybe most importantly, we passed H.R. 1, the biggest anticorruption 
bill passed by Congress since Watergate.
  Again, 80 percent of those bills are awaiting action in the Senate.
  The Senate doesn't have to pass the version we passed. This is a 
legislative process. Bring it to the floor, amend it, send it back, but 
do your job.
  The American people are expecting us to deliver on the promises that 
we made to get government to work for the people of this country again.

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