[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 40 (Thursday, March 21, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H2564]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    A REPUBLICAN MEMBER TRUSTS HAMAS

  (Ms. DeLAURO asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. DeLAURO. Madam Speaker, the fact of the matter is that the 
antiterrorism bill passed last week in this body allows Hamas to raise 
funds in the United States of America, to raise their funds to go out 
and to kill innocent men and women and children. We had one Member, a 
colleague from the Republican side of the aisle, say that it was he or 
she who trusted Hamas more than they trust their own government.
  Let me tell my colleagues, how can any Member trust a despicable 
organization, a bloodthirsty and terrorist organization? The pain and 
the misery that Hamas has caused may be abstract for some of my 
colleagues, but it is not for me, and it is not for my constituents. 
Last year my constituent Joan Davenney of Woodbridge, CT, was in 
Israel. She was a teacher at the Ezra Academy on a fellowship in Israel 
studying ways to improve curriculum at her school, a decent, wonderful 
young woman. Let me say that she was on one of those buses. She was 
killed by the terrorist organization Hamas. A sad day indeed when 
Republicans can defend Hamas on this floor.

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