On the recordMay 19, 2004
it really is a very good question posed frequently on the House floor today, Are we better off today than we were 4 years ago? Let us think. Four years ago, we had a morally disgraced President in the United States of America in the Oval Office. Today we have a man of integrity, of virtue, of principle, of purpose. Four years ago, the terrorists planned their attacks against America and our allies. Today, America attacks the terrorists while they cower in the mountains of Pakistan. Four years ago, Saddam Hussein amassed weapons of mass destruction, the Taliban was in power, and Libya had a WMD program. Today, the Taliban is gone. Saddam Hussein is in a cell. We have found pieces of his WMDs, and Libya has ended its program. Four years ago, the Clinton recession took hold. Today, last month, 300,000 new jobs. Four years ago, partial birth abortion was legal in America. Today, that moral horror has ended. We are better off today than we were 4 years ago.
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