U.S. Senator Harry Reid (D-Nv) and U.S. Representative Nancy Pelosi (D-Ca) Hold a News Conference On the Republican Congress

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U.S. Senator Harry Reid (D-Nv) and U.S. Representative Nancy Pelosi (D-Ca) Hold a News Conference On the Republican Congress

DEMOCRATS HOLD NEWS CONFERENCE ON THE REPUBLICAN CONGRESS

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

SPEAKERS: U.S. SENATOR HARRY REID (D-NV), SENATE MINORITY LEADER

U.S. REPRESENTATIVE NANCY PELOSI (D-CA), HOUSE MINORITY LEADER

U.S. REPRESENTATIVE STENY HOYER (D-MD), HOUSE MINORITY WHIP

U.S. SENATOR RICHARD J. DURBIN (D-IL), SENATE MINORITY WHIP

U.S. REPRESENTATIVE JAMES CLYBURN (D-SC), CHAIRMAN, HOUSE DEMOCRATIC CAUCUS

[*] REID: "It's a very difficult thing to get anything done out of this Congress. They don't want to do anything for the people. They're awful anxious to do things to the people. And they've done a lot of things to the people and it's beginning to hurt."

This, of course, was Harry Truman in 1948, the 80th Congress.

These same words could apply to the 109th Congress.

Take, for example, Iraq. After all the sacrifices -- the Washington Post, for example, today, had page after page, colored photographs of the brave men and women that were killed in Iraq during the last couple of months.

Now, there are more than 2,700 who have given their lives in Iraq. The numbers -- tens of thous...

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