[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 1]
[Senate]
[Page 540]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           SUPPORT OUR TROOPS

  (Mr. YOUNG of Florida asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. YOUNG of Florida. Madam Speaker, last night in this Chamber, as 
the President of the United States was encouraging Americans to support 
our troops, my wife was sitting in this gallery right over here, and 
she was ordered to leave the gallery because she was doing, and this 
was in the middle of the President's speech, what the President said we 
should all do.
  She had on this shirt, a very conservative shirt, long sleeves, high 
neck. But it says ``Support our Troops.'' Someone at this door in the 
gallery ordered her to leave. When she got into the corridor, they 
explained to her that she was a demonstrator, that she was a protester. 
Besides that they lied about what she did. They said she had on a 
jacket, she flashed open the jacket and exposed this shirt. Not true. 
She did not have a jacket on. Then they called her a demonstrator and a 
protester.
  When asked about this incident by a reporter from the St. Petersburg 
Times in my home district, they denied, denied, and said she left on 
her own volition.
  My wife supports our troops on every day, every hour, every waking 
hour. It is with a passion, because of a passion that comes from the 
hours and the days and the weeks and the months that she has spent in 
our military hospitals ministering to those who have been wounded in 
the line of duties, helping with their families.
  Yes, she has a real passion for our troops, and she shows it in many, 
many ways. Most members in this House know that. But because she had on 
a shirt that someone did not like that said ``Support our Troops,'' she 
was kicked out of this gallery while the President was speaking and 
encouraging Americans to support our troops. Shame, shame.

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