[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 16]
[House]
[Pages 20696-20697]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                     AMERICANS WANT A NEW DIRECTION

  (Mr. McDERMOTT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. McDERMOTT. Mr. Speaker, the Republicans are shutting down the 
debate in Congress today. They don't want the American people to hear 
anything other than Republican press releases. They have nothing else 
to show and offer the American people.
  November will be a referendum on the President's failed diplomacy, 
disastrous war in Iraq, and governing America by telling the American 
people to be afraid.
  Now, maybe Aesop was wrong 3,000 years ago in his fable. Maybe you 
can shout, ``Wolf, wolf, wolf,'' and win an

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election. But you can't stifle democracy and cling to power. The 
American people have had enough.
  The Republican leadership believes that they are going to have the 
last word today, but, fortunately, on November 7, the American people 
are going to choose a new direction. They don't want any more of this. 
They have watched it, they have given the President support, they have 
given him leeway, and what have they gotten? A war that is making more 
unsafe our world, and Americans want a new direction. They are going to 
get it on November 7.

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