[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 15]
[House]
[Page 20068]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                    MILITARY COMMISSIONS ACT OF 2006

  (Mr. MARKEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MARKEY. Mr. Speaker, the Military Commissions Act, which we are 
taking up today, will not make us more secure. It will endanger 
American personnel overseas, undermine the Geneva conventions, and give 
a get-out-of-jail-free card to people who may have committed war 
crimes.
  If an American is captured in North Korea, Iran, Syria, or Somalia 
and held and interrogated under the same kangaroo court process this 
bill will create, every single Member of this House would be outraged 
at that miscarriage of justice.
  The public is tired of a Republican majority that retreats to fear-
mongering instead of trying to find constructive solutions to the 
serious security problems facing Americans. The Republicans refuse to 
screen for nuclear bomb material coming in in ships, they refuse to 
screen cargo going onto American passenger planes, and they refuse to 
require that chemical plants in our country have mandatory security 
built around them.
  By passing this bill today, we are lowering our standards and we are 
encouraging other countries to lower their standards as well. And it 
will be the American troops captured on a future battlefield who will 
pay the price.

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