[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 13]
[House]
[Page 17336]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          PROBLEMS IN AMERICA

  (Mr. McDERMOTT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. McDERMOTT. Mr. Speaker, the Republicans went home for a month and 
listened to people and watched the decimation of Lebanon. They watched 
the continuing mess in Iraq. The President cancelled the return of 
13,000 people, or Mr. Rumsfeld did, and they are keeping them in 
Baghdad because the place is in a shambles.
  But what do we do when we come back, the first week we are back? Do 
we discuss those issues, or do we discuss the slaughter of human 
beings?
  No, we are here to deal with horse slaughter. When I was in my 
district, I don't remember in the 18 years that I have been in my 
district that I have heard anybody come and say, why don't you stop the 
slaughter of horses?
  What is the matter with the Republican Party? Have you nothing to do? 
Can't you pass anything on port security? Can't you pass anything on 
immigration? Can't you pass anything about helping the President get 
out of Iraq? Or about the economy? Gasoline is $3 a gallon. You cut the 
Pell Grants, and you come out worrying about the slaughter of horses. I 
vote ``nay.''

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