[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 14781]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          A CLUELESS CONGRESS

  (Mr. MORAN of Virginia asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. MORAN of Virginia. Mr. Speaker, there is a conflagration in the 
Middle East. We are losing the war in Iraq. We are losing ground to the 
Taliban in Afghanistan. The stock market is crashing, gas prices are 
skyrocketing. We have raised the debt ceiling four times to $9 
trillion, all of which we are going to dump on the backs of our 
children, who we are inadequately educating, let alone creating a safer 
world for them.
  And what are the Republican congressional leadership's priorities? To 
ban same-sex marriage, to ban flag burning, to ban stem cell research, 
to ban child safety locks on guns in the home, to ban abortion here and 
family planning abroad, to protect the pledge of allegiance, to cut $20 
billion from college student loan programs, to cut $9 billion from 
elementary and secondary education. And, oh, yes, more tax cuts.
  Mr. Speaker, this has got to be the most clueless Congress in 
American history.

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