[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 9003]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       FREEDOM IS WINNING IN IRAQ

  (Mr. PENCE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PENCE. Mr. Speaker, this weekend with the news of the adoption of 
a new government in Iraq, the silence was deafening. You could hear a 
pin drop among the critics of U.S. policy in Iraq.
  But there it was. Prime Minister al-Maliki kept his word. He named 39 
cabinet ministers, each of whom was approved by more than 90 percent of 
the 275-member elected Iraqi Parliament, the first government of Iraq 
formed since the toppling of Saddam Hussein.
  May God bless Prime Minister al-Maliki and all those brave ministers 
in his new government; for despite what you read, despite some of what 
you see, freedom is winning in Iraq and this new government's formation 
stands for that truth.

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