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Speaker Nancy Pelosi spoke at a brief press availability at the White House this afternoon following a bicameral bipartisan leadership meeting with President Bush today. Below are her remarks:

"With this veto, the president has doomed us to repeating a terrible history. President Bush's current position is hauntingly reminiscent of March 1968 in Vietnam. At that time, both the Secretary of Defense and the President had recognized that the war could not be won militarily - just as our military commanders in Iraq have acknowledged. But not wanting to be tainted with losing a war, President Johnson authorized a surge of 25,000 troops. At that point, there had been 24,000 U.S. troops killed in action. Five years later, when the withdrawal of U.S.

TO THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES:

I am returning herewith without my approval H.R. 1591, the "U.S. Troop Readiness, Veterans' Care, Katrina Recovery, and Iraq Accountability Appropriations Act, 2007."

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The House is debating whether to override the President's veto of the Iraq Accountability Act. Speaker Nancy Pelosi spoke on the House floor:

Speaker Nancy Pelosi:

Democratic Caucus Chairman Rahm Emanuel speaks on new revelations of corruption in the White House:

Rep. Emanuel: "Madam Speaker, the list of Republicans under investigation or resigning in this administration in disgrace keeps growing..."

Full transcript:

This morning, moments after a message with the President's veto of the Iraq Accountability Act was delivered on the House floor, Reps. Tim Walz (MN-01) and Lloyd Doggett (TX-25) spoke against it in one-minute speeches:

Rep. Walz: "Yesterday the President vetoed only the second bill that has ever come to his desk. He called it 'a prescription for chaos and confusion.' I ask, how is that different from what we have now?"

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