[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 5]
[House]
[Pages 6932-6933]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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      OUR MEN AND WOMEN ON THE FRONTLINES OF IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN

  (Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, let me just reflect on what we 
owe the men and women on the frontlines of Afghanistan and Iraq. I 
think we owe them the best equipment, the best leadership, and the best 
minds. So I was disturbed as I read the article in the USA Today that 
indicated that more soldiers were being killed in the utilization of 
Humvees in 2005 and 2006 than had been in the years past in the war in 
Iraq.
  Mr. Speaker, it is important and imperative that an immediate 
reaction be given and an action be taken by the Department of Defense 
to help save the lives of our young men and women on the frontlines, 
the reinforcement of

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Humvees, new technology in body armor, new technology in head gear. Our 
children are dying. They are without the proper body armor and Humvees, 
and that is insufficient for a country of this size.
  Finally, it is imperative that a full accounting be given about the 
dollars that have been spent in Iraq as to what they have been spent 
for, why they have been spent, and, of course, an accounting that shows 
that no corruption has taken place.

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