[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 106 (Thursday, July 9, 2015)]
[House]
[Page H4970]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        START REBUILDING AMERICA

  (Mr. DUNCAN of Tennessee asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. DUNCAN of Tennessee. Mr. Speaker, David Keene for 27 years headed 
the American Conservative Union and is now opinion editor of The 
Washington Times.
  Last month he wrote that, as a result of our wars and attempts at 
nation building in the Middle East, there ``is a generation of young 
Americans who have never known peace; a decade in which thousands of 
our best have died or been maimed with little to show for their 
sacrifices, our enemies have multiplied, and our national debt has 
skyrocketed.''
  Now we are about to spend $82 billion in the OCO account for our 
unnecessary wars and nation building in Iraq and Afghanistan and other 
parts of the Middle East. This is over and above our regular defense 
budget. This 1-year, $82 billion appropriation would more than pay for 
a 6-year highway bill, which everyone on both sides say they want.
  Let's stop trying to foolishly rebuild the Middle East and start 
rebuilding America. Let's bring all those hundreds of thousands of jobs 
home.

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