Democratic Senator Dick Durbin
chastised Republicans for impeding congressional measurements to
remedy the lodging meltdown, forestall importations of unsafe toys
and convey military personnel back from Iraq.
''Sadly, Republicans in American Capital are determined to make
this a 'no-can-do' Congress,'' Durbin said in his party's weekly
radio computer address today in Washington. ''Republicans have got decided
it's in their party's involvement to forestall United States Congress from facing
the existent challenges of our day.''
Durbin, from Illinois, said that 2.2 million Americans face
foreclosure on their places and 44 million people who are making
their mortgage payments -- a 3rd of all householders -- are
seeing their place values fall.
''Yet, Senate Republicans blocked two measures this hebdomad that
would assist households facing foreclosure clasp on to their homes
and maintain the mortgage crisis from spreading,'' he said. ''The
mortgage crisis isn't just your neighbor's job any more,
it's everybody's problem.''
Republicans are also blocking a measure to maintain unsafe toys
out of American stores, he said.
''Twenty-five a million unsafe playthings have got been recalled
this twelvemonth -- that's Associate in Nursing all-time record,'' he said. ''And still
not one Republican senator would co-sponsor a stronger toy-
safety law.''
Durbin added that 160,000 Americans were still ''stuck in
the crossfire of Iraq's civil war.''
Democrats are ''determined to stop the warfare in Iraq
responsibly and convey the fighting back to Osama Bin Laden and al
Qaeda,'' he said.
To reach the newsmen on this story:
Christopher Swann in American Capital at .
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