[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 8417]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          UNANSWERED QUESTIONS

  (Mr. EMANUEL asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. EMANUEL. Mr. Speaker, President Kennedy once said, ``An error 
does not become a mistake until you refuse to correct it. Without 
debate, without criticism no administration and no country can succeed 
and no republic can survive.
  Today, Members of this House and this Chamber have refused and said 
it is not time to have hearings in this Congress over what we have seen 
recently in Iraq. The men and women over there serving their country, 
our country, our friends, our neighbors, our constituents, are making 
us proud. This Congress has an obligation to ask questions of how and 
why this occurred, no matter where the criticism leads.
  Our troops should not be used as scapegoats. Our civilian leaders 
need to be asked the questions, the Congress, all of us who got 
elected, all of us who take a pledge have a requirement to ask 
questions and seek the answers that our constituents sent us here.

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