[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 13]
[House]
[Page 18234]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




               FEAR IS ALL THE REPUBLICANS HAVE TO OFFER

  (Mr. McDERMOTT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. McDERMOTT. Mr. Speaker, the Republicans gave us their November 7 
resolution last night. Five years ago, the Nation stood as one, but the 
Republicans have divided us ever since. They believe dividing America 
is the best hope for clinging to power in the November election.
  They can pass self-congratulatory resolutions that have more to do 
with November 7 than September 11, but patting themselves on the back 
is no substitute for protecting the American people by adopting the 
recommendations of the bipartisan 9/11 Commission.
  Republicans have not done that. Instead, Republicans have been 
ordered by the President to continue his fiction that Iraq and al Qaeda 
were connected. The evidence proves otherwise, so Republican leaders 
are trying to hide the evidence beneath their rhetoric.
  Just remember this: Republicans have propped up this President by 
spending more on the Iraq war than on domestic security. Republicans 
have given us fear and fiction around the fifth anniversary of 9/11. 
Just imagine what they have in store for us in the next weeks.
  Fear has never made America safer, but that is all the Republicans 
have to offer, and that is simply not enough to protect and defend 
America in the 21st century.

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