[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 21]
[House]
[Page 28833]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          END THE WAR IN IRAQ

  (Mr. CLEAVER asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. CLEAVER. Madam Speaker, this morning I rose from my slumber and 
turned on C-SPAN, as I always do, and caller after caller mentioned 
that they interpret what goes on here in this body as irrelevant, that 
we don't listen to the American people. Of course, if they are talking 
about the war, which most Americans want ended, they are right. If they 
are referring back to the Terri Schiavo incident, they are right. But 
many of them were talking about the SCHIP program. It is troublesome to 
me that we will not provide health insurance for 10 million children.
  I don't attack the President, I don't condemn my colleagues and call 
them names, but I have got to say that it is embarrassing that the 
dreams of the American public show up here on this floor to die. This 
has become the burial ground for American dreams.

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