[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 5]
[House]
[Page 7062]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         BRING OUR TROOPS HOME

  (Ms. SHEA-PORTER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. SHEA-PORTER. Madam Speaker, there are those who say we need to 
support our troops. The question is what troops, the same troops we 
have sent out three and four times? I have asked my colleagues on the 
other side of the aisle to please look at the armed services numbers 
and see the strain that we are putting on our military.
  I have also asked them to think about if they had family members 
there, would they still be talking about supporting the troops in such 
a way as to put them in harm's danger?
  Supporting our troops means getting them out of a civil war. Support 
our country by caring for our own people and bringing our money home to 
protect our borders in this country.
  We need to spend money to build our military back up. We need to 
protect our borders, and we need to support our troops and support 
their families by bringing our troops home now.

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