[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 2]
[House]
[Page 1875]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                  VICE PRESIDENT MUST ALSO FOLLOW LAWS

  (Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, I am delighted to follow my 
colleague from Tennessee to talk about the bad behavior of vice 
presidents.
  Let me first of all say that when you are a civilian, you are a 
civilian. But I rise today to express my deepest disappointment in the 
behavior of the Vice President of the United States of America. A man 
was injured on the soil of Texas; and, lo and behold, it took us 20 
hours before the American people and the President of the United States 
could have one iota of information.
  I wish the attorney in Texas best wishes and good health, but I want 
to say to the Vice President of the United States that the inherent 
powers of the presidency do not inure to you, where you are allowed to 
travel secretly on Air Force II, to not allow the press to follow you 
as any public servant would have and to hide and cover up a drastic and 
tragic incident that occurred in the United States of America or 
anywhere around the world.
  I believe the Vice President should own up to what occurred. I 
understand he made some remarks today, a little too short and a little 
too delayed. I believe we have seen again a cover-up of this 
administration, and the Vice President is the chief cover-upper of the 
United States of America.
  Mr. Vice President, you, too, are subject to the laws of the United 
States of America.

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