[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 3758]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




            PRESIDENT BUSH NEEDS TO SHAKE UP THE WHITE HOUSE

  (Ms. WATSON asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Ms. WATSON. Madam Speaker, how low do the President's poll numbers 
have to go until he finally realizes that it is time to make some 
changes in his administration? Either he is to blame for all of the 
incompetence that we have seen out of the White House over the last 
couple of years, or he finds it a perfectly acceptable attribute in his 
key advisors.
  With the ever-increasing violence in Iraq, it simply defies logic why 
Defense Secretary Rumsfeld still has a job. How many mistakes does 
Rumsfeld have to make before President Bush says enough is enough?
  Then there is Secretary Chertoff. The White House can blame Michael 
Brown all they want for a tragically slow and inadequate response to 
Hurricane Katrina, but a lot of the blame should be pointed right at 
the man in charge, Secretary Chertoff, who as of yesterday put a lot of 
the evacuees out on the street. And he still remains on the job.
  Then there are the Under Secretaries who signed off on a deal that 
handed over operations of six U.S. ports to a foreign nation. Imagine 
that, outsourcing our homeland security to another nation. It is time 
for changes, Madam Speaker.

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