[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 18953]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                   DEMOCRATS OFFER A DIFFERENT VISION

  (Ms. SCHAKOWSKY asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Ms. SCHAKOWSKY. Mr. Speaker, perhaps the greatest disservice that the 
Bush administration and the Republican leadership have inflicted upon 
the American people is the lowering of expectations of what this great 
country of ours can be.
  As the undisputed superpower of the world and the richest nation in 
the history of the planet, our opportunity to be a force to advance 
humankind in all respects is without limit and, one after another, this 
Nation has squandered those opportunities, leaving more Americans in 
poverty and without health insurance, breathing dirtier air, fewer with 
a chance of college, 1,027 dead in a war that has made the United 
States reviled around the world.
  The Democrats are offering today a different vision, inviting all 
Americans to partner with us and each other in an America built on our 
shared values of prosperity, opportunity and fairness for all, national 
security, accountability and community.
  Together, we can fulfill the great promise and the great hope that is 
the United States of America.

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