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“I have three unanimous consent requests. I yield for the purpose of making a unanimous consent request to the gentlewoman from Minnesota (Ms. McCollum). Ms. McCOLLUM of Minnesota. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to put my statement in the Record on House Resolution 861. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the gentlewoman from Minnesota? There was no objection. Ms. McCOLLUM of Minnesota. Mr. Speaker today we mourn the death of the 2,500th American soldier in Iraq and are disgusted by the headline in yesterday's Washington Post stating, ``Iraq Amnesty Plan May Cover Attacks on U.S. Military.'' With another American soldier killed and the news of Iraqi Prime Minister al-Maliki seeking amnesty for insurgents who have killed and maimed U.S. troops, this House debates H. Res. 861, a meaningless, nonbinding Republican resolution that is a political document designed as a partisan campaign ploy, not a serious attempt to address the failings and mismanagement of this disastrous Iraq policy. Our troops in Iraq are in harm's way, they are sacrificing tremendously for all Americans and the Iraqi people, and this Republican Congress honors their sacrifice with a farcical debate--it is shameful. A majority of Americans know that the Bush administration's Iraq policy is strategically bankrupt and it has put U.S. troops in the untenable position of refereeing an Iraqi civil war.…”