TRUMP ADMINISTRATION MUST STAND UP FOR SYRIAN CHILDREN NOW; Congressional Record Vol. 163, No. 60

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TRUMP ADMINISTRATION MUST STAND UP FOR SYRIAN CHILDREN NOW

(Ms. JACKSON LEE asked and was given permission to address the House

for 1 minute.)

Ms. JACKSON LEE. Mr. Speaker, I could not leave this place, the most

powerful lawmaking body in the world, in the season of Easter and

Passover and sacrifice without bringing to the attention of my

colleagues that children are dying. The children in Syria are suffering

from the bombing and the vileness of President Assad and the chemical

attack, where children and babies are struggling to breath.

This Congress has to act. We must join those who want an infusion of

emergency dollars.

Where is our heart.

And then the famine in Sub-Saharan Africa, where there are more

displaced persons than we have seen in history. Sixty thousand have

escaped to Kenya, and children and women are dying. In the name of our

former colleague, the Honorable Mickey Leland, who died in 1989, taking

grain to the famine area in Sub-Saharan Africa, we must act now.

As a founder of the Congressional Children's Caucus myself, I cannot

stand here and allow the children to die. This Congress must

immediately issue emergency funds that appropriators such as

Congresswoman Lee are putting forward. We must go to the region now and

say what America is going to do. And the Trump administration must

stand up for children now.

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