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Americans Want a New Direction
House of Representatives - September 29, 2006

Mr. Speaker, the Republicans are shutting down the debate in Congress today. They don't want the American people to hear anything other than Republican press releases. They have nothing else to show and offer the American people.

November will be a referendum on the President's failed diplomacy, disastrous war in Iraq, and governing America by telling the American people to be afraid.

Now, maybe Aesop was wrong 3,000 years ago in his fable. Maybe you can shout, ``Wolf, wolf, wolf,'' and win an election. But you can't stifle democracy and cling to power. The American people have had enough.

The Republican leadership believes that they are going to have the last word today, but, fortunately, on November 7, the American people are going to choose a new direction. They don't want any more of this. They have watched it, they have given the President support, they have given him leeway, and what have they gotten? A war that is making more unsafe our world, and Americans want a new direction. They are going to get it on November 7.