On the recordFebruary 14, 2006
That is the problem. Article I, section 1 of the Constitution creates the House of Representatives, and our job is to oversee everything, including the administration. So if they are at war, we should be overseeing this. And if there is a bunch of political hacks that are making money off this, then we need to go and bust them. We need to be involved. But this Republican Congress will not oversee what is going on in Iraq, and the hundreds of millions of dollars that Mr. Delahunt was just talking about, you are paying for, you are, I am, with interest, because we are borrowing it from the Chinese and the Japanese governments.
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