[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 9791]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        IN SUPPORT OF OUR TROOPS

  (Mr. SHAYS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. SHAYS. Mr. Speaker, congratulations to the Appropriations 
chairman, ranking member and all who worked on the Wartime Supplemental 
conference report. They did a tremendous job.
  As a returned Peace Corps volunteer who strongly supported the 
President's effort to get Saddam Hussein's Iraq to cooperate with the 
UN inspectors and dismantle its weapons of mass destruction, I am 
proud, so proud, of our men and women who serve our great Nation. Our 
job in Congress, when we send our men and women into battle, is to make 
sure it is never a fair fight. We need to make sure those who risk 
their lives in service to this country have every advantage. We have 
done our job and we are doing our job.
  As another returned Peace Corps volunteer, Jim Walsh, said, we are 
supporting our troops who brought freedom to a troubled land and we are 
helping to rebuild that land and nation and the good people who live 
there.
  This is a good sign of a great Nation. May God continue to bless the 
United States of America.

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