I continue visiting the House floor to listen to the Iraq debate. I've been reading a lot about history and, increasingly, about the institution of Congress; about men and women who served in the House and Senate during great moments in history. What a sense of motivation it gives me. I've been the reading the Doris Kearns Goodwin story of Lincoln and his war cabinet – a delicious work of history that I'm rationing, so I only read a few dozen pages a night to make it last.
Wednesday night I stopped by the House floor, and as luck would have it Dave Reichert, a Republican out of the Seattle area, invoked Kearns and her work on Lincoln as justification for the war and a rationalization for voting against the resolution.
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