[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 3451]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           NATIONAL SECURITY

  (Mrs. BLACKBURN asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. BLACKBURN. Mr. Speaker, 10 days ago Democratic Senators were 
calling President Bush weak on national security. Now they are seeking 
to censure him for being too aggressive in going after terrorists. 
Well, they can't have it both ways.
  Congressional Democrats have no serious plan for national security. 
Maybe that is why they are doing this. They have a plan to use the 
security issue in their campaigns; they have a plan to try and kill 
strong anti-terrorism measures, like the PATRIOT Act; but they have no 
plan for securing our homeland.
  Instead of supporting the PATRIOT Act, instead of supporting the 
intelligence community's work to monitor phone calls that could yield 
information that will save American lives, Senate Democrats are going 
to push a motion to censure President Bush.
  If they are pushing this censure in order to distract from the fact 
they do not have a security plan, it is not working.

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