2006 Congressional Debates

• Mr. Murtha introduced the following resolution: Expressing the Sense of Congress that the President should immediately replace the Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld Offfice of Representative John Murtha 13 Sep 2006 -- "It is the sense of the Congress that, for the good of the country, the United States of America must restore credibility both at home and abroad and that the first step toward restoring that credibility must be to demonstrate accountability for the mistakes that have been made in prosecuting the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq by immediately effecting the resignation of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and replacing him with someone capable of leading the nation's military in a strategy to resolve our deployment in Iraq, prevent regression in Afghanistan, reconstitute our military readiness, and refocus on the threats to national security posed by diffuse and proliferating terrorist cells as well as belligerent states."