Cheat Sheet: Talking Points for Lawmakers on the Way Home
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Congress is on break until Sept. 4. As lawmakers head home, they will be listening to their constituents for clues as to why congressional approval levels declined so steeply over the first seven months of the 110th Congress. But they will be ready to respond with a set of talking points.
Excerpts, from the caucuses:
Senate Democrats
· "After nearly five years of a failed Iraq strategy that has stretched our military thin, distracted us from fighting al-Qaeda and made America less secure, Democrats passed legislation that would have truly changed course in Iraq by responsibly redeploying our troops. . . . [T]he President vetoed that bill. . . . Democrats will continue to fight for the change of course in Iraq the vast majority of the American people know we need."
· "Democrats passed the most sweeping ethics and lobbying reforms in generations."
Senate Republicans
