[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 9194]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                 LET US FOCUS ON THE PEOPLE'S BUSINESS

  (Mr. FOLEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. FOLEY. Mr. Speaker, to refute the comments of the previous 
speaker suggesting we are captives of special interests, that we are 
not doing the people's work, I will beg to differ.
  I see a lot of progress here. But I also see a lot of name calling 
that I think is unfortunate and unnecessary. Pointing fingers, trying 
to catch each other in scandal does not bring honor to this House. So 
they can give their statements and they can give their quotes and they 
can make soundbytes, but the American public are worried about health 
insurance. They are worried about gas prices. They are worried about 
our soldiers in Iraq. They are worried about terrorism. And we should 
be working on that as Democrats and Republicans. But, instead, we sit 
here and make accusation, innuendo and create diatribe. We are much 
better than that.
  We had an emergency evacuation today. We are on pins and needles 
based on the real terrorist threat that exists, and we are just 
becoming name callers.
  So I urge all of us, both sides, to take a moment, pause and honestly 
focus on the people's business, not on trying to score cheap political 
points.

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