[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 13]
[House]
[Page 17638]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




              CALLING UPON THE VICE PRESIDENT TO APOLOGIZE

  (Mr. STRICKLAND asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. STRICKLAND. Mr. Speaker, if it were permissible under the rules 
of this House, I would call upon the Vice President to apologize to the 
American people for making the following outrageous statement. 
Yesterday he said, ``It is absolutely essential that 8 weeks from today 
on November 2 we make the right choice, because if we make the wrong 
choice, the danger is we will get hit again.''
  Does the Vice President not understand that we have parents with sons 
and daughters fighting in Iraq who are members of the Democratic Party 
and who support Senator Kerry for President? Does he not understand 
that at this very moment and at the moment he spoke, there were 
Democratic soldiers in Iraq fighting for his freedom, as well as the 
freedom of all of us?
  It is shameful, shameful, that the Vice President would interject 
such a divisive bit of rhetoric into the public discourse in this 
country. Has he no shame?

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