[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 94 (Friday, July 9, 2004)]
[House]
[Page H5404]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          THEY STOLE THE VOTE

  (Mr. McDERMOTT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. McDERMOTT. Mr. Speaker, the Congress voted to restore civil 
liberties yesterday, and then the Republican Party stole the election. 
Again.
  In America, you get to vote once, but not in a Republican America. In 
Republican America, they vote again and again and again and again until 
the Republicans get the preordained outcome the administration decrees. 
That is what happened yesterday in this Chamber.
  The House has gotten to the point where the U.N. will have to send 
election monitors to ensure the votes are not rigged in the elections 
on November 2.
  The vote was rigged yesterday. Today, they can spy on your private 
lives. Today, they can see what you read, what you watch, and play with 
your mind about what you are thinking. Today, they say America is safer 
because everybody is afraid. America is only more vulnerable and less 
free.
  Yesterday's vote was not about anything but controlling the American 
people's freedom to read and dissent. This administration wants to end 
dissent. They want no one to say anything about anything they do 
whether it is in a prison at Abu Ghraib or giving contracts to 
Halliburton or anything. That is what yesterday was about.

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