[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 16]
[House]
[Page 21709]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          THE WAR ON TERRORISM

  (Mr. PENCE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PENCE. Mr. Speaker, Sunday night President Bush addressed the 
Nation for the first time since the end of major combat in Iraq. He 
showed the world once again, as ever, his determination, his tenacity 
to see this war through to its just conclusion, to bring peace and 
independence and security and freedom to the people of Iraq.
  The President also called on this Congress in the next month to 
appropriate nearly $90 billion in supplemental spending for military 
and reconstruction efforts, and so we should address that astonishing 
number thoughtfully and carefully, as we are charged to do under the 
Constitution.
  But I would offer two humble principles. Number one, our troops have 
every penny they need to get the job done and come home safe. But it is 
time on the subject of reconstruction, Mr. Speaker, that we begin to 
ask our partners in the Coalition of the Willing to contribute their 
resources along with the American people to rebuilding Iraq.

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