[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 123 (Wednesday, September 25, 2002)]
[House]
[Page H6563]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    AMERICANS SHOULD PRAY FOR PEACE

  (Mr. DOGGETT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DOGGETT. Mr. Speaker, tonight at 6 o'clock at Freedom Plaza at 
13th and Pennsylvania, a number of area religious leaders will gather 
in a prayer vigil for peace. This afternoon, several of the victims 
from 9/11 will be here to affirm that they think peace is the better 
course, particularly since there has been a total inability of the 
Administration to connect the terrorist events of 9/11 with Iraq.
  I believe that Americans must pray and must petition their elected 
representatives here in the Congress to be more than a speed bump on 
the fast track to war in Iraq, a war that will take thousands of lives, 
a war that will take hundreds of billions of dollars from American 
taxpayers.
  Now is the time to speak out and speak out firmly in favor of the 
security of our country and our families, and doing it in a 
constructive and reasonable way, not by launching a war against a 
despot in Iraq.

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