[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 19 (Wednesday, February 15, 2006)]
[House]
[Page H298]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     Al GORE STATEMENTS OUT OF LINE

  (Mrs. BLACKBURN asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. BLACKBURN. Mr. Speaker, most of us have been respectful on the 
issue of security, even though some of our colleagues on the other side 
of the aisle obstruct for reasons that many times we do not discern. 
But there has been a trend of late of Democrat leaders traveling 
overseas to deliver speeches bashing America.
  This past weekend, former Vice President Al Gore gave a speech in 
Saudi Arabia declaring that America had committed terrible abuses 
against Arabs after September 11. He said that Arabs had been 
indiscriminately rounded up and held in unforgivable conditions.
  Mr. Speaker, there are some things that you simply do not do as a 
former American leader, and one of them is to bash your country on 
foreign soil. His comments are out of line, incorrect, and further 
proof of his disconnect with reality. He owes an apology to the 
countless men and women working around the clock trying to keep this 
country from experiencing another September 11. Our colleagues across 
the aisle ought to take him to task for his irresponsibility.

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