[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 13]
[House]
[Page 17823]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           NATIONAL SECURITY

  (Ms. FOXX asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. FOXX. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize the Republicans' 
determination for complete success in the war on terror and the 
policies we are putting forth to prevent further terrorist attacks.
  The great statesman, Winston Churchill, said: ``Never, never, never 
believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on 
the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will 
encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once 
the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave 
of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.''
  Republicans are committed to defending our Nation from further 
terrorist attacks and are taking the initiative to vote in the coming 
weeks on two important pieces of legislation integral to fighting the 
war on terror. We will vote to authorize the terrorist surveillance 
program that monitors calls only from known or suspected terrorists 
outside of our country to cells within the United States. We will also 
vote to authorize military tribunals for known or suspected terrorists. 
It is commonsense justice to try terrorists under military tribunals 
rather than afford them a trial in the criminal court, a part of our 
very life-style they are trying to destroy.

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