The president vetoed the bill outright, and, frankly, misrepresented what this legislation does. This bill supports the troops. In fact, it gives the president more than he asked for, for our troops.

The president wants a blank check. The Congress is not going to give it to him.

In the last election, the American people called for a new direction. Nowhere were they more firm in that new direction being necessary than in the war in Iraq.

This is an ethical issue. This isn't a political issue. I respect where the president is coming from on this. I wish he would respect where we are coming from, which is a reflection of where the American people are coming from.

The speaker says she's just following recommendations of the bipartisan Iraq Study Group, which calls for constructive engagement with Syria to build an international consensus for stability in Iraq.

We think it's a good idea. We have no illusions, but we have great hope.

It's a good idea to establish the facts, to hopefully build some confidence between us.

We think it's a good idea to establish the facts, to hopefully build some confidence between us. We have no illusions, but we have great hope.

It voted no to giving a blank check to an open-ended commitment to war without end to the president of the United States, and yes to begin the end of the war and the redeployment of our troops.

By July of 2007, if progress is not demonstrated, if the president cannot certify that progress is made, we begin the redeployment of our troops out of a combat role in Iraq.

The bipartisan resolution today may be nonbinding, but it will send a strong message to the president.

... a Congress that will pass legislation the first 100 hours to make American people safer, make our economy fairer, make our Congress more honest and build a better future for all of America's children.

All of these have been vetted through the committee process. Some of them have even passed on the floor.

The 100 hours will begin tomorrow, so that we could have given three-day layover as we promised we would, so that everyone would have a chance to see the bill.

Adding more combat troops will only endanger more Americans and stretch our military to the breaking point. We are well past the point of more troops for Iraq.

Nowhere were the American more -- people more clear about the need for a new direction than in the war in Iraq.

For our daughters and our granddaughters, today we have broken the marble ceiling.

I accept this gavel in the spirit of partnership, not partisanship.

The American people rejected an open-ended obligation to a war without end.

Our first order of business is passing the toughest congressional ethics reform in history.

The election of 2006 was a call to change.

Nowhere were the American people more clear about the need for a new direction than in the war in Iraq.

We're calling to give you the good news that this Congress is now fully sworn in and ready to work with you.

All of these have been vetted through the committee process. Some of them have even passed on the floor.

... a Congress that will pass legislation the first 100 hours to make American people safer, make our economy fairer, make our Congress more honest and build a better future for all of America's children.