[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 15185]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                 HOUSE REPUBLICANS DISTRACT AND DIVIDE

  (Mr. CARNAHAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. CARNAHAN. Mr. Speaker, it is bad enough that out of the 201 days 
this year this House has only been in session for 63. We are on track 
for this House to meet even less than the notorious ``Do Nothing 
Congress'' that Missouri's Harry Truman ran against in 1948.
  But now the House Republican leadership has dedicated themselves to a 
distract and divide agenda, even while we face growing challenges at 
home and crisis abroad.
  This week their agenda called for supporting President Bush's veto of 
the landmark stem cell bill that would move us closer to lifesaving 
cures for diseases like Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, and cancer. Majority 
Republicans are cutting off hope for millions of Americans, all so they 
can satisfy their base on the far right. Do they really want to keep 
research from finding cures to these diseases so we can save millions 
of lives? Their agenda is not our agenda.
  With only one week left before the August recess, House Republicans 
refuse to address the issues that are of real concern to American 
people. It is time we take America in a new direction.

                          ____________________