[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 16]
[House]
[Page 21501]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                            APOLOGY ACCEPTED

  (Mr. KING of Iowa asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KING of Iowa. Mr. Speaker, I come to the floor today to make the 
point that last Wednesday night during a joint session there was a very 
brief breach of decorum here by Congressman Joe Wilson, someone who is 
a true consummate Southern gentleman, an officer and a gentleman.
  He immediately called the White House, the White House immediately 
accepted Joe Wilson's apology, and that must be the end of it. A 
gentleman that conducted himself as a gentleman immediately in the 
aftermath, without putting his finger to the political winds, he did 
the right thing.
  No one has a claim to any further redress if the President of the 
United States accepts an apology, and he did.
  So I stand with Joe Wilson. Let's get on with the business of this 
House, and let's start running this country instead of doing cheap 
political points, which I expect will be coming to the floor of this 
House sometime about tomorrow.

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