[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 8]
[House]
[Pages 10980-10981]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    GOP IS THE CUT-AND-RUN CONGRESS

  (Mr. EMANUEL asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. EMANUEL. Mr. Speaker, Karl Rove has said that the Democrats want 
to cut and run on the war in Iraq. Well, let us talk about cutting and 
running.
  When we were told this would be a quick war and turned into a long 
war, this Congress cut and run from its oversight responsibility.
  When we were told 130,000 troops would be enough but more were 
clearly necessary, this Congress cut and run from doing its oversight 
responsibility.
  When we were told this would be a conventional war and it turned into 
an insurgency, this Congress cut and run from its oversight 
responsibility.
  When we were told oil would pay for reconstruction, but the taxpayers 
were left with a $480 billion tab, this Congress cut and run from its 
oversight responsibility.

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  When we were told we would be greeted as liberators but had become 
treated like occupiers, this Congress cut and run from its oversight 
responsibility.
  Mr. Speaker, Republicans want to portray the greatest foreign policy 
challenge of a generation as simply a choice between staying the course 
and cutting and running. Democrats look forward to this debate.
  Mr. Speaker, oversight requires the vigilance and patriotic 
determination of every Member of Congress to do the job we were sent 
here to do and ask the questions that their constituents want.
  Mr. Speaker, it is time for new priorities in Iraq and here at home.

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