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Senate Leadership

Floor Speech

Date: Sept. 20, 2012
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Government Budget and Spending

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Mr. WICKER. Mr. President, yesterday the New York Times said this: ``The 112th Congress is set to enter the Congressional record books as the least productive body in a generation.''

This is true, and the responsibility falls squarely at the feet of the Democratic Senate leadership. The Senate has taken just 193 recorded votes this year. The Senate has been more than 3 years since passing a budget. The majority leader has shut off the right to amend a record number of times. The majority leader has filled the amendment tree a record 66 times--more than his 6 predecessors in the Senate who did it a total of 40 times. The majority leader has shut off the right to debate. He calls up a bill, he files cloture on it, and then he has the audacity to call that a filibuster.

In short, the Democrats have failed to pass a budget, have failed to do a single appropriations bill, and have failed to consider a Defense authorization bill when we have troops in harm's way. America needs new leadership.

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