C. W. Bill Young: “last night in this Chamber, as the President of the United States was encouraging Americans to support our troops, my…”

“last night in this Chamber, as the President of the United States was encouraging Americans to support our troops, my wife was sitting in this gallery right over here, and she was ordered to leave the gallery because she was doing, and this was in the middle of the President's speech, what the President said we should all do. She had on this shirt, a very conservative shirt, long sleeves, high neck. But it says ``Support our Troops.'' Someone at this door in the gallery ordered her to leave. When she got into the corridor, they explained to her that she was a demonstrator, that she was a protester. Besides that they lied about what she did. They said she had on a jacket, she flashed open the jacket and exposed this shirt. Not true. She did not have a jacket on. Then they called her a demonstrator and a protester. When asked about this incident by a reporter from the St. Petersburg Times in my home district, they denied, denied, and said she left on her own volition. My wife supports our troops on every day, every hour, every waking hour. It is with a passion, because of a passion that comes from the hours and the days and the weeks and the months that she has spent in our military hospitals ministering to those who have been wounded in the line of duties, helping with their families. Yes, she has a real passion for our troops, and she shows it in many, many ways. Most members in this House know that.…”