[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 13]
[House]
[Page 17640]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




    EXPRESSING INDIGNATION RESULTING FROM COMMENTS OF VICE PRESIDENT

  (Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, I would make one announcement 
this morning before I begin my 1-minute and ask for the leadership of 
consciousness and fairness of this House, the Republicans, to bring the 
extension of the assault weapons ban to the floor of the House and 
allow democracy to prevail.
  I too offer my sympathy to the people of Russia for the loss of their 
loved ones. That is why I stand this morning to claim outrageously my 
indignation over a most hateful comment, if you will, that has been 
offered by the second-in-command of the United States of America. To 
suggest that the American people will make a choice, and if they make a 
different choice from the present leadership of this government, then 
we are sure to have a terrorist hit, is something beyond my 
comprehension. It is beyond my comprehension to debase the very serious 
issue of lives lost on 9/11, now some few days away; to suggest that by 
voting that you are going to bring about a hit on the innocent American 
people.
  I would hope that in the course of this debate, the American people 
will make the right choice, and that choice is to recognize that people 
who have dignity and respect for the Constitution, John Kerry and John 
Edwards, are really the ones that should be elected; and anyone who 
wants to play in the field of divisiveness suggesting that we be hit 
because you make an election choice should be unelected.

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