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Vol. 152 WASHINGTON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2006 No. 128 House of Representatives The House met at 10 a.m. thoughtful work on the Financial Serv- not JIM’s view of the world, especially f ices and International Relations com- if grays and even colors were part of mittees. JIM predicted the savings and the picture. MORNING HOUR DEBATES loan crisis, and was spot on in his ob- This week my colleague JIM WALSH The SPEAKER. Pursuant to the servations about American diplomacy and I will be circulating a ‘‘Dear Col- order of the House of January 31, 2006, from the Middle East to North Korea. league’’ letter to Members of the House the Chair will now recognize Members He was always dignified and prin- of Representatives on both sides of the from lists submitted by the majority cipled, one of the few people who navi- aisle, a letter that would urge Presi- and minority leaders for morning hour gated the legislative halls successfully dent Bush to consider the appointment debates. The Chair will alternate rec- without being mired in partisan poli- of JIM LEACH as our Permanent Rep- ognition between the parties, with each tics. resentative to the United Nations. It is party limited to not to exceed 25 min- Indeed, in his congressional cam- a nomination that no doubt would be utes, and each Member except the ma- paigns, he refused PAC contributions, greeted by acclaim. It would pass the jority leader, the minority leader or didn’t want out-of-State donations, he United States Senate I predict unani- the minority whip limited to not to ex- wouldn’t run negative ads, and he re- mously, and we would all be the better ceed 5 minutes, but in no event shall jected outside groups who tried to run off. debate extend beyond 10:50 a.m. negative ads on his behalf. He may I strongly urge my colleagues to join The Chair recognizes the gentleman have actually won his election by play- us in signing this letter for the nomi- from Oregon (Mr. BLUMENAUER) for 5 ing by the rules widely accepted as the nation of JIM LEACH. minutes. norm and by which most prefer to oper- f f ate. He may have won, but it wouldn’t CONSERVATISM REPRESENTATIVE LEACH FOR have been JIM LEACH and we all would PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE have been the poorer. The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mrs. TO UNITED NATIONS While Iowa has lost JIM’s service to EMERSON). Pursuant to the order of the Mr. BLUMENAUER. Mr. Speaker, Congress, America need not lose his House of January 31, 2006, the gen- today I reflect on the gentleman from service, his intellect and his unique tleman from North Carolina (Mr. Iowa’s almost four decades of public talents. Ambassador John Bolton’s ap- MCHENRY) is recognized during morn- service, 30 of them as a distinguished pointment to the United States Perma- ing hour debates for 5 minutes. Member of this House of Representa- nent Representative to the United Na- Mr. MCHENRY. Madam Speaker, vot- tives. I am referring to my friend, JIM tions expires at the end of the year, ers did not reject the core values of LEACH. and the United States cannot afford a traditional conservatism: Lower taxes, For many of the 12,000 men and gap in our representation. We des- smaller government, traditional family women privileged to serve in the House perately need a strong, positive direc- values, and strong national defense. of Representatives since the founding tion to guide multilateral diplomacy in They did not reject that when they of the Republic, their careers are dis- the United Nations. went to the polls on November 7. In the tinguished by service in this Chamber. There is not another American who words of George Will, ‘‘Republicans JIM LEACH is one of those rare individ- is better suited to advancing United were punished not for pursuing, but for uals for whom Congress itself is distin- States interests in that important forgetting conservatism.’’ guished by his service. There is no one forum by temperament, experience or This election represents neither a de- from whom I have learned more by his intellect than JIM LEACH. Remember, feat for conservatism nor a victory for words, his deeds and his friendship. He as a young foreign service officer, he liberalism. The American people are a is one of the few among us who, when actually served at the United Nations conservative people. While the election he speaks on the floor of the House, under then-ambassador George H.W. results put a majority in power in both people who care about substance listen. Bush before returning to Iowa as part the House and Senate for the first time He consistently chooses the right of his family’s business, and then on to in 12 years, we see that 36 percent of words, and invites people to be part of 30 distinguished years of service in this the American electoral describes itself the process. He listens. He is never body. as ‘‘conservative.’’ That is double the drawn into petty partisan politics that If anything, JIM may be better suited number that consider themselves ‘‘lib- too often rear their ugly heads. as a diplomat than at partisan politics. eral.’’ We are a conservative nation. For 30 years we have been privileged He is the most diplomatic politician I A Rasmussen poll conducted after to watch his conscientious and have ever met. Black and white was the election found that 61 percent of

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VerDate Aug 31 2005 23:50 Nov 14, 2006 Jkt 059060 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A14NO7.000 H14NOPT1 ccoleman on PROD1PC71 with HOUSE H8612 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE November 14, 2006 the American people think that higher platform of the opposing party, which Madam Speaker, this Nation has to taxes will hurt the economy. We are a is nothing but a revamp and a reissue have a plan and it is time that the conservative Nation, Madam Speaker. and a running of a late, late show of President, whose war this is, come for- And I would tell you that what the vot- the thing that we have been hearing ward with such plan as to how we can ers said on Election Day is that they from them for the last 40 years.’’ win. Staying the course has failed. want conservative policies in place. He said that 30 years ago. So I would Americans will support what has to be Voters opted for the more conservative submit to you today the Democrat done to get us out with honor and dig- candidate and more conservative side platform is just what it has been for nity and to win. Now the President can of most issues. Nine States passed the last 70 years, but the new freshman claim that he has the power to do these measures to restrict the government’s class advocated a platform similar to things, and clearly under the Constitu- ability to take land through eminent what the Republicans have been advo- tion he does; but the President also has domain, taking private property for cating for the last 50 years. the duty to come forward with a plan government use or public use. Madam Speaker, I would tell you this that can be understood, accepted, car- Voters in Colorado, Idaho, South election was a wake-up call for us to ried out, implemented and successful Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, return to those bold colors and return for the American people. Virginia and Wisconsin passed con- to conservative values. If we are committed to staying in stitutional amendments to define mar- f Iraq, the President must face the riage as between one man and one American people and adequately pre- WAR ON TERRORISM woman. Now a majority of States have pare them for the truth: The truth that enacted those constitutional protec- The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- his desires for Iraq will take more sol- tions stopping liberal judges from rede- ant to the order of the House of Janu- diers, more money, and cost more lives. fining marriage. We are a conservative ary 31, 2006, the gentleman from Michi- The American people respect and ad- Nation, Madam Speaker, and similar gan (Mr. DINGELL) is recognized during mire leadership and honesty. They ad- amendments on marriage have passed morning hour debates for 5 minutes. mired it in Roosevelt, in Truman and across the country in previous elec- Mr. DINGELL. Madam Speaker, the in Ronald Reagan. Honesty begins with tions and will continue to happen going people have spoken. The election is making an honest accounting of the forward. over and they have said to us that they costs and coming forward with a truth- Previous Democratic wins in 1974 and have given us their marching orders. ful statement of where we are and what 1986 swept into office new and very lib- For 40 months American soldiers we must do. If this Nation needs more eral freshman classes. If we look at the have been suffering, working, and equipment for our soldiers or needs new Democrat freshman class of 2006, dying for their country in the Iraq war. more soldiers over there, then we must they are not liberals, Madam Speaker. Since that day, 2,800 Americans have be told that and the President must What is striking is that this freshman been killed. More than 20,000 have been face that, and we must do what has to class campaigned as conservatives. In wounded, most in gruesome fashion, be done to see to it that we have the fact, I know of one candidate who went and we have spent $450 billion when proper forces there to prevail. out and advocated for certain prin- Secretary Wolfowitz told us the Con- This war is being charged to our chil- ciples. They might ring true to me as a gress would pass only $3 billion in ap- dren and grandchildren. We need to ex- Republican. He said he is pro-life, he is propriations to fund this curious exer- amine whether or not it is just and pro-gun. He is for traditional marriage, cise. proper for us to do that. We must pur- tax cuts, and for balancing the budget According to the National Intel- sue with vigor the diplomatic front. and a strong national defense. Sounds ligence Estimate, we have been made The countries in the area must be in- like a Republican to me, but he is a less safe. The other members of the volved, and certainly little sign of that registered Democrat. axis of evil, Iran and North Korea, have taking place is visible to all of us. Pro-life Democrats were elected in developed or are developing nuclear We have to swallow our pride. Let us North Carolina, Indiana, Ohio and weapons. We have forgotten our mis- talk to everyone, reengage the Syrians Pennsylvania, just to name a few. Pro- sion in Afghanistan where a democrat- and the Iranians, in addition to those gun Democrats were elected in Florida, ically elected government is slowly los- countries who are our allies in the re- Indiana, Minnesota, North Carolina, ing control of the country. gion. And as we approach the fourth Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas and The war in Iraq has produced more year of this war, and it must be ob- Vermont. Wow, those are conservative terrorists. According to the National served that is longer than we were principles, and I will tell you that it is Intelligence Estimate, it has found committed to the war in Europe in a call to conservatives, to Republicans, that the Iraq war has created more ter- 1945, Syria and Iran have to be explored to be true to those conservative issues rorists and terrorist sympathizers than as possible participants in the solution we ran on originally. have been destroyed. Iraq has become to the problems which exist there. After the Republicans’ last electoral the central front in the war on ter- The President must look the Amer- disaster, then-California Governor rorism, simply because this adminis- ican people directly in the eye and he Ronald Reagan spoke before the Con- tration has made it so. must deal honestly with our people. He servative Political Action Conference Vice President CHENEY said the in- must provide the generals with what and said, ‘‘Our people look for a cause surgency was on its last throes, and they need and not shortchange our to believe in. Is it a third party we more Americans die every month than troops. We have only one option, and need, or is it a new and revitalized sec- did when the actual war itself was that is to either win or to get out. ond party, raising a banner of no pale going on. Again, the National Intel- Mr. President, your country asks you pastels, but bold colors, which make it ligence Estimates said that fanatical if Iran is so central to our security in unmistakably clear where we stand on terrorism has metastasized and spread the future, why haven’t you made it all of the issues troubling the people.’’ across the globe. possible to win and why have you not Madam Speaker, Ronald Reagan said At each and every turning point: The provided our military with the assets that in 1975. These bold colors underpin toppling of Saddam Hussein’s statue; and the strategy that they need to win our conservative platform, and that is the dissolving the Iraqi Army; the cre- at the earliest time? what we must return to as a governing ation of the Iraqi constitution; the I was a soldier in World War II. Our majority in the next election. As Re- vote for the constitution; the par- purpose then was to win quickly, to publicans, that is what we should stand liamentary elections; the capture of win strongly, and to do so at the least for. Saddam; or the death of Zarqawi, the cost to our people. Victory was our Ronald Reagan went on to say, ‘‘We Bush administration has told us vic- goal, and we were committed to it and have just heard a call to arms based on tory is at hand. we worked for it. that platform, and a call to us to really Meanwhile, the bloodshed intensifies, In this world the only thing that will be successful to communicating and re- hope dims, and more Americans come count in this matter is success. In this veal to the American people the dif- home with terrible wounds or in body war there has not been strong leader- ference between this platform and the bags. ship from the White House to achieve

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