[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 4]
[Senate]
[Page 4382]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        DEMOCRATS 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, today we saw that Minority Leader Pelosi 
and the Democrats unveiled their plan for securing America. No big 
surprises. They slammed the President and demanded immediate withdrawal 
from the Middle East. And they called that immediate withdrawal 
``redeployment'' to try and soften what is absolutely an awful policy.
  We have to remember that many of the House Democrats are on record 
voting against funding for the troops in Afghanistan and Iraq. They are 
also acting like we have shortchanged funding for first responders when 
we have spent millions upon millions that we have never before 
dedicated to emergency response at the local level.
  They claim we need to focus more on international cooperation, this 
in a world where some of the worst human rights abusers are routinely 
allowed to serve on the U.N. Human Rights Commission.
  Mr. Speaker, Republicans in this majority have been serious about 
national security. We work on the issue every day, all year, not just 
when an election is approaching.

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