[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 15]
[House]
[Page 20062]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        TIME FOR A NEW DIRECTION

  (Mr. BERRY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BERRY. Mr. Speaker, I encourage everyone to keep in their hearts 
and minds and certainly in your prayers our men and women in uniform 
and those on the battlefield this morning.
  Mr. Speaker, it is time, it is time for a new direction. It is time 
for health care that the American people can afford.
  It is time for Social Security that we can depend on. It is time to 
have jobs that do not disappear. And it is amazing, it demonstrates the 
way the big oil companies have managed to abuse the American people to 
the point where they think $2.15 for gasoline is a good deal. That is 
shocking.
  It is time for us to go in a new direction: Leadership that honestly 
serves our goals of peace and prosperity, security by getting the job 
done rather than blaming somebody else because of the failures of this 
administration.
  It is time to go in this new direction, and we should not recess this 
Congress until these goals are reached.

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