On the recordMay 13, 2004
This Congress in the last 43 days has been in session 14 days. What have we done with our time? We have named 11 post offices, recognized the Garden Club of America, recognized the importance of music education, authorized the use of the Capitol grounds for the Soap Box Derby. What has happened to our troops? 175 have died in the last 43 days, bringing the total in Iraq to 775. While we name post offices and recognize sports teams, our constituents are asking questions of how we got in a war without an exit strategy, and for what purpose did we miscalculate and how did we miscalculate our entry into that war. And this week, how are we handling controversies in Iraq? We are going home a day early. President Kennedy once said, 'To govern is to choose.' We can name post offices, or we can ask questions, and even this Congress might try to do both.
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