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Tom Price: I appreciate once again the opportunity to come before the House of Representatives tonight and bring the latest version…

On the recordSeptember 20, 2006
I appreciate once again the opportunity to come before the House of Representatives tonight and bring the latest version of the Official Truth Squad. You have heard a lot of information over the last hour, much of which, in terms of its tenor and its tone, was the genesis for the Official Truth Squad, because what we as Republican freshmen Members of Congress determined about a year or a little over a year ago was that there was an awful lot of disinformation and misinformation and distortion and demagoguery and division, attempting to divide the Nation in such a way that it did a disservice to everybody. And, Mr. Speaker, you have heard an awful lot of that over the last hour. We have got some very serious things to talk about tonight, but I wanted to spend a few moments and just try to lower the temperature a little bit, try to decrease the calamity that you have just heard. You have heard a lot of discussion about all sorts of issues, mostly national security issues. You have heard some claims about the 9/11 Commission and how none of the recommendations of the 9/11 Commission have been proposed or adopted by Congress. But what the Official Truth Squad is all about is about truth. It is about fact. It is about real things. And one of our favorite quotes comes from Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who had just a great quote. He said that everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but nobody is entitled to their own facts.
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Tom Price
Georgia

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Addressing misinformation and the need for truth in national security discussions.

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