[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 13061]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          DEMOCRATS PLAY HOUSE

  (Mrs. BLACKBURN asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. BLACKBURN. Mr. Speaker, the Washington Post ran an article today 
titled ``Democrats Play House to Rally Against the War.''
  ``Play house,'' Mr. Speaker. That is all the far left leadership 
seems to think about these days. If you have not read the article, 
basically Judiciary Committee Democrats are angry they are not running 
the committee and they are not the majority, so they are playing dress-
up. Literally.
  To quote the article, they pretended a small conference room was the 
Judiciary Committee hearing room. The ranking member banged a large 
wooden gavel and got the other Members to call him ``Mr. Chairman.'' He 
liked that so much he started calling himself ``the chairman.''
  Mr. Speaker, here we are trying to reform the United Nations, trying 
to win the war on terror, and the far left leadership in the House is 
playing pretend. They have pretended winning the war on terror would be 
cost-free, and that raising taxes grows the economy. They need to stop 
playing dress-up, and they need to join us in moving forward on a 
positive agenda for the American people.

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