[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 4117]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        DEMOCRATIC SECURITY PLAN

  (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, Roll Call reports that the Democrats are 
going to unveil an ``ambitious security plan'' tomorrow.
  Well, bless their hearts. If they have not noticed, those of us on 
this side of the aisle have been focused on the issue and passing 
security legislation for more than 5 years now.
  President Bush has made national security his priority mission. House 
Republicans have been talking about it for months. We have been working 
with our leadership on it. They consider national security priority 
number one, not a political tactic to trot out 7 months before an 
election.
  We passed the PATRIOT Act to target terrorists. The Democrats voted 
against it. We passed the REAL ID Act to make it harder for potential 
terrorists to use valid State-issued identification documents. They 
opposed that.
  We are pushing a border security bill to strengthen our border 
control, and Democrats in the Senate are threatening a filibuster. Mr. 
Speaker, Americans are going to see right through their last-ditch 
effort to look engaged on security.

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