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Debbie Wasserman Schultz: But I say to my good friend from Georgia who has just issued a call to raise the tone of the dialogue, I think the…

On the recordSeptember 20, 2006
But I say to my good friend from Georgia who has just issued a call to raise the tone of the dialogue, I think the Official Truth Squad would do well to engage in a little truth and acknowledge that it is they who have engaged in the vicious rhetoric that has gone back and forth for the last dozen or so years that they have controlled this chamber, and that the direction that they have moved this country in has given us neither faith nor reason to believe that this country will be able to be put on the right track unless we making some significant changes, not the least of which is in our economy. Security, Democrats believe that security is incredibly important, not just our national security and our homeland security, but economic security, and no matter what this district is I travel to, no matter what district you represent, the people in this country are yearning for a commitment from this Congress to move this country in the right direction on economic security.
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Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Democratic · Florida

Editor's note · Context

Addressing the need for economic security and criticizing the current leadership's rhetoric.

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