RECENT ATTACKS IN SYRIA; Congressional Record Vol. 163, No. 59

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RECENT ATTACKS IN SYRIA

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

for 1 minute.)

Ms. JACKSON LEE. Mr. Speaker, I rise as a mother. As I looked at the

video of young children trying to survive, trying to live in Syria\\--

this is one of the most potent pictures--I had to come and cry out for

the mothers and children of that vile and heinous act.

I am calling upon Americans and this government to stop talking and

to act, to begin to demand that Russia stop assisting President Assad--

himself a terrorist--against his people and begin to understand that

the chemical attack was driven by Assad's bombers.

No matter where it might have been, you have to know that families

are here.

To my Syrian neighbors in Houston, Texas, we are standing with you.

We must find a resolution.

Even as we are investigating Russian collusion and Russian

investigation into elections, the President must say to Vladimir Putin

to become a world citizen and not a thug. This is thuggish. We are

killing people.

The Syrian people and Syria deserve to live. We must stand up and

fight together, and I hope that we will immediately be able to respond

to this with the United Nations, with our surrounding neighbors, and

with legislation that brings sanctions against Russia and Assad.

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