[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 18252]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                  THE AMERICAN PEOPLE DESERVE ANSWERS

  (Ms. LEE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Ms. LEE. Mr. Speaker, as the questions surrounding the Bush 
administration's case for war continue to mount, and the administration 
continues to stonewall, the American people deserve answers.
  I want to read from an editorial from yesterday's Los Angeles Times. 
It says: ``Scandals metastasize. That is the pattern since Watergate. 
What starts out looking like a small, isolated incident gradually 
reveals itself to be a part of a larger abuse of power. Meanwhile, an 
unraveling cover-up adds new elements. Is that happening now with the 
scandal over White House leaks of the identity of a CIA agent?''
  As new elements of this unraveling cover-up are revealed, we should 
not lose sight of the larger abuse of power and the real scandal here.
  As Chris Matthews said on Hardball on July 24: ``The larger scandal 
in this White House/CIA leak story is not just who leaked the name of 
an undercover agent, but whether we were given a case for war, the 
deciding factor for many of us, knowing that it didn't hold water. As 
we work to find our way out of Iraq, we should focus a bit . . . on how 
we got in.''
  Mr. Speaker, the American people deserve answers.

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