Congressman Tom Price (R-GA) issued the following statement after Majority Leader Hoyer officially announced that Democrats will bring Congress back for a post-election lame duck session. For several months, Democrats have speculated on what liberal agenda items they might try to pass during a lame duck session – including tax increases on families and small businesses, a new national energy tax, massive spending increases, and a hand-out to Big Labor known as ‘card check.’

“For the past two years, Democrats have made a habit of ignoring the will of the American people in order to advance their big government agenda,” said Congressman Price. “Now their leadership is enthusiastically endorsing doing so in a lame duck session of Congress. As if the past 19 months of failed policies have not left our nation in a large enough fiscal hole, Democrats believe that a lame duck session is the perfect opportunity to rack up additional items from their liberal wish list. Never mind the fact that our country cannot afford it and the American people do not want it. Democrats have not yet let the voices and concerns of families and job creators stand in their way. Perhaps it would be too much to ask that they begin listening now.

“House Republicans have been listening and acting on the concerns of the American people. We have proposed concrete plans to cut spending, keep taxes low, and rein in the out-of-control growth in the size, scope, and power of Washington. This is a strategy to begin alleviating the uncertainty that threatens both our short-term and long-term prosperity.”