[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 5]
[House]
[Page 6534]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                     CONGRESS NEEDS TO CLOSE RANKS

  (Mr. HUNTER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. HUNTER. Mr. Speaker, our troops are well-equipped, well-trained 
and well-led. They are well-led all the way from their noncommissioned 
officers and officers at the small unit and company and battalion and 
brigade and division level all the way up to their leader at the top, 
the Commander in Chief of America's Armed Forces, President George 
Bush.
  They have everything they need for victory except for one ingredient, 
Mr. Speaker. They need a Congress which quits berating their President, 
who is their leader, and their mission and closes ranks behind that 
mission and our President for victory.

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