[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 86 (Friday, June 24, 2005)]
[House]
[Pages H5103-H5104]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       UNWORTHY OF OUR DISCOURSE

  (Mr. HOYER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1

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minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HOYER. Mr. Speaker, on Wednesday the President's top political 
adviser stated, and I quote, ``Liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 
attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and 
understanding for our attackers.''
  This statement is offensive, divisive, and patently false.
  Three days after those barbaric attacks, this House voted 420 to 1 to 
use all necessary and appropriate force against those responsible.
  The Senate passed the same measure 98 to 0.
  I do not know whether Mr. Rove's statement was calculated to exploit 
collective national pain for partisan political gain, although his 
slash-and-burn track record speaks for itself.
  But Mr. Rove should apologize and retract it. And the President of 
the United States, who represents not Republicans, not Democrats, but 
all Americans, should repudiate it today.
  The President came to office stating he wanted to change the tone in 
Washington. Today, today he can demonstrate that he meant it.

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