[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 13]
[House]
[Pages 17690-17691]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




      THE ACTIONS OF THE VICE PRESIDENT REGARDING THE WAR IN IRAQ

  (Mr. McDERMOTT asked and was given permission to address the House

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for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. McDERMOTT. Mr. Speaker, my colleagues are saying we must have an 
end to the war, as have two Republican Senators. It is time for us to 
look at the actions of the Vice President of the United States.
  You remember when George Bush sent Dick Cheney out to find a Vice 
President and he found himself? Well, if you read the last 4 days of 
The Washington Post, you read a chilling picture of the actions of the 
Vice President as he manipulated the intelligence leading us into the 
war. He has been the driving force to keep us in that war and still is 
today.
  Then when questioned about what he does over there, he says, I am not 
a member of the executive. I don't know exactly. I have an office here, 
but I am not covered by the things the President says.
  This man has been evading an Executive Order from 2003 by the 
President of the United States that everyone tell how they are covering 
classified material. But the Vice President is above that.
  The Vice President is not above investigation by the House of 
Representatives for his actions in taking us into war and keeping us 
there.

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