[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 4]
[Senate]
[Page 4285]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                 DEMOCRAT ``NATIONAL SECURITY AGENDA''

  (Mr. PITTS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. PITTS. Mr. Speaker, Democrat leaders are planning to make big 
news at a press conference later today. What is the news? That they are 
tough on national security. This kind of claim coming from 
congressional Democratic leaders leaves the American people scratching 
their heads. It is one thing to hold an election-year conference full 
of tough talk on national security issues; it is quite another thing to 
back that talk up with your voting record.
  Unfortunately, their rhetoric doesn't match their record. Where were 
the Democrat leaders when it came time to vote for the PATRIOT Act or 
for border security legislation or armed services recruiting or the 
REAL ID Act? Given the chance, they often line up against our Nation's 
national security initiatives, again and again and again.
  It is Democrats who would like to censure President Bush for 
authorizing the NSA terrorist surveillance program. It is Democrats who 
want to unilaterally withdraw from the Iraqi front in the war on 
terror. A news conference to announce Democrat leaders are tough on 
national security, that certainly is big news.

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