[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 8420]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           EVENTS OF THE DAY

  (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, let me acknowledge the heros 
of Cinco de Mayo Day, and all of my constituents and friends who are 
celebrating this day.
  Mr. Speaker, I also want to acknowledge this is the national day to 
prevent teenage pregnancy, and to be able to say that from 1990 to 
2000, the decrease in teenage pregnancy is seen at 28 percent.
  Let me also congratulate the family of Mr. Hamill, who is now 
celebrating his return, and I acknowledge that because many of his 
friends and coworkers are in my congressional district. To them I say, 
what a celebration, but we pray for other hostages.
  But I am so sorry that I stand here today really to challenge the 
tragedy of what has happened in the Iraqi prisons, not because those 
line soldiers, who I know have done a disgraceful act, are the only 
ones now being chastised, but because this administration believes that 
cameo appearances on the television are the solution to the tragedy of 
what happened, that that will correct the face of America in front of 
the million of Muslims and Iraqi people.
  Mr. Speaker, it is time for the administration to come to this 
Congress and that there be full exposure to what happened, not in the 
back rooms of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence or some 
other committee, but in an open hearing of this Congress. Shame on this 
Congress if we do not demand a full briefing of what happened. It 
should not be behind the closed doors of the Permanent Select Committee 
on Intelligence.

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