Boozman: House Should Act on MoveOn Attack

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Calls for leadership to pass bipartisan bill condemning attack

U.S. Representative John Boozman (R-AR) today called on House leadership to move forward on legislation condemning MoveOn.org's attack on the nation's military, after the Senate passed its own condemnation earlier Thursday.

In a bipartisan move, the Senate passed, 72-25, an amendment from Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) which expresses "the sense of the Senate that General David H. Petraeus, Commanding General, Multi-National Force-Iraq, deserves the full support of the Senate and strongly condemn personal attacks on the honor and integrity of General Petraeus and all members of the United States Armed Forces."

"I applaud the bipartisan move by the Senate to condemn MoveOn's unwarranted attack on a four-star general serving in a war zone," Boozman said. "It is my hope the House leadership can move in a similar bipartisan fashion to pass our own condemnation."

In an exchange on the House floor this afternoon, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) said he would not commit to bringing up legislation condemning the Moveon.org attack ad against Gen. Petraeus that ran last week in The New York Times.

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