This is a Republican speechification opportunity. I think you may want to let them have their day.

I would pick one really tolerant and patient Representative to speak for the Democratic side. Your opening statement will let folks know he has no speakers other than himself and reserve your time entirely for your closing statement. Send everyone else home. They really don't need to be there because a resolution has no force. You DO need staff taking notes on the various Republican speechifications. You may want to add responses to a couple of points to the closing statement.

And since I enjoy rhetorically poking people in the eye once in a while, I suggest a little sympathy for the Prez:

You know, Presidents have suggested they need a line-item veto power for quite a while now. I always thought such a power to be an unconstitutional intrusion on Congressional perogatives; and it seems President Bush intends his signing statements to be an end run around those perogatives.

Yet as I look at the matter before us I realize there are indeed times a resolution would profit greatly from the application of a bright red marker. Though noble in its intent, there are suppositions and assumptions in this resolutions that the citizens we represent simply do not accept.

We Democrats are realists. We had no say in the content of this resolution, find it unacceptable to our constituencies. Yet we also know our constituencies do not want us to be silent on this. They want their voices to be heard.

This is what our districts want us to say

Then read something cool into the Congressional record. You have all the time you need because you have only one speaker.

Close by moving to recommit the resolution, saying your only choice if the motion fails is to abstain from voting. This way you have your positive statement on record to point at while you're running for office, you have your principled stand, all that cool stuff.

Take advantage of the fact this is all theater over a pissant little resolution with no force of law.