[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 20]
[House]
[Page 27400]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




            INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEES ARE A CAMPAIGN-FREE ZONE

  (Mr. GREEN of Wisconsin asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GREEN of Wisconsin. Mr. Speaker, not so long ago, Democratic 
leaders said before the cameras, actually yelled before the cameras, 
that this war should not be politicized.
  This week we learned just how empty and how hypocritical those words 
were. Among other things, we learned of a Democratic staff memo from a 
Senate Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence describing a plan to 
use intelligence information about the war for political points during 
a Presidential campaign.
  Mr. Speaker, we have men and women in uniform in harm's way. We have 
families back here who desperately miss them and fear for their safety 
and now we have this memo.
  Not everything is a political game. Not everything should be campaign 
fodder. Of all our committees, our intelligence committees should be 
campaign-free zones. I believe the American people deserve better, and 
I know our troops deserve better.

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