Chris Chocola: “I find it interesting how night after night during this period of the evening we call Special Orders that my friends on…”

“I find it interesting how night after night during this period of the evening we call Special Orders that my friends on the other side of the aisle come down and talk about allegations of scandals, of things like contracts with companies trying to help rebuild Iraq, outcries over misleading our Nation to war, charges of coverups and lack of cooperation; and so I would like to just address what the previous speaker talked about, which is this allegation that there is an attempt to delay the elections. All the news reports I have seen in the last 24 hours is that there was never any request nor any really evidence of anybody trying to delay elections by any means at all. But sometimes we just do not let the facts get in the way of our opinions, and so we ignore those. Mr. Speaker, I am going to ask my colleagues to imagine that there is a scenario like the following: imagine if the press had reported an alleged scandal that entailed $10 billion of illegal payments, and in that same article it was revealed that the head of the program that was the subject of those allegations was implicated and was suspected of directly participating in those illegal payments.”