turned their grief into action. |
Two months ago, some assured us that court-stripping efforts would stop once they [Republican leaders] got what they wanted on the Defense of Marriage Act. There is no pretense that this will end. What is next? Voting rights? Laws that prohibit racial discrimination? Civil liberties? Our rights to privacy? |
Under this administration, the value of no-bid contracts has skyrocketed Oversight of federal contracts has been turned over to private companies with blatant conflicts of interest. And when government auditors and whistleblowers do flag abuses, their recommendations are often ignored. |
Unfortunately, President Bush's tax panel is a Trojan horse, using so-called simplification to cut taxes for the wealthy while increasing taxes for middle-class families, |
Using Hurricane Katrina as their excuses the Republicans are again pushing their special interest agenda, |
We are determined to make this issue too hot for the Republicans to handle, ... They are just going to have to come through and they are going to have to do it soon. |
We are not where we should be at the start of yet another year of war in Iraq and Afghanistan . |
We can choose to help the people who are affected by Katrina, or we can give tax cuts to the wealthiest people in America. |
We can solve the long-term challenge without dismantling Social Security, and without allowing this administration's false declaration of a crisis to justify a privatization that is unnecessary, unaffordable and unwise, |
We don't think the fight is over. |
We had hoped to hear some new ideas for promoting economic growth, but unfortunately we heard the same tired proposals we have heard before. |
We have a duty to protect the American people from terrorism, but also to protect law-abiding American citizens from unaccountable and unchallengeable government power over their personal lives, their personal records and their thoughts, |
We have lost just about everything that we can lose, |
We have to ask ourselves ... how could things have been different? ... What could have been done to prevent the magnitude of this tragedy? These are questions that Congress should legitimately ask. |
We have to remember the impact this has had on individual investors, |