[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 115 (Wednesday, September 22, 2004)]
[House]
[Page H7333]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




        WAR IN IRAQ IS COSTING U.S. LIVES AND DOMESTIC PROGRAMS

  (Ms. WATERS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. WATERS. Mr. Speaker, I am sick and tired of waking up every 
morning to the news that more men and women are being killed in Iraq. I 
am as patriotic as anybody, but why are we in Iraq? We have discovered 
that we were misled. There are no weapons of mass destruction. But our 
young men and women are dying every day.
  At the same time, we are spending $1 billion per week on this war. We 
are spending $1 billion a week, but we have 44 million Americans 
without health insurance. We have rising poverty. We have men and women 
who work every day but cannot afford to pay rent. Yet this 
administration is cutting the section 8 program that would support 
families in their ability to have a house.
  What are we doing in education? Far too many dropouts, not only in 
our inner cities but in our rural areas. This President says, leave no 
child behind, but it is empty rhetoric. He is not putting his dollars 
where his mouth is.

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