[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 74 (Tuesday, June 1, 2004)]
[House]
[Page H3568]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




             IT IS IMPORTANT FOR CONGRESS TO WORK TOGETHER

  (Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, today, June 1, causes me to 
reflect on two distinct and different occurrences.
  First of all, we notice across the Nation senior citizens confused, 
not understanding and certainly not enrolling in the so-called 
prescription drug cards. We welcome our pharmaceuticals to really work 
with this Congress to produce a guaranteed Medicare prescription drug 
benefit, what the seniors have actually wanted for almost 10 years, in 
order for the seniors to truly get what they deserve, something they 
can count on and something that works.
  It also causes me to reflect on the wonderful opportunity I had to 
visit with the troops in Bagram Air Force Base in Afghanistan and on 
the USS George Washington. It says that the political collapse that 
seems to be occurring in Iraq is not the fault of our soldiers, but bad 
political policies.
  It is important for Congress to work together, to demand full 
investigations of the ills that are occurring in Afghanistan and Iraq 
in order to pay tribute to these hard-working soldiers every day on the 
front line. Let us not have the ills and the incompleteness of our 
political process undermine the tribute and the work that has been done 
by these fine outstanding United States military.

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