[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 138 (Saturday, October 28, 2000)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E1986-E1987]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   BRING THEM HOME ALIVE ACT OF 2000

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                               speech of

                        HON. SHEILA JACKSON-LEE

                                of texas

                    in the house of representatives

                       Tuesday, October 24, 2000

  Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to rise in 
support of the ``Bring Them Home Alive Act of 2000.'' This bill creates 
an extraordinary opportunity for nationals of Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, 
China, and the independent states of the former Soviet Union to do a 
wonderful thing and be richly rewarded for it. If a national from any 
of these countries

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personally delivers a living American Vietnam War POW/MIA into the 
custody of the U.S. Government, he or she will be granted United States 
refugee status.
  I am deeply moved when I think of the grief that is being endured by 
so many Americans, the Americans who are living with the uncertainty of 
having family members who were missing in action or prisoners in 
Vietnam and have not been heard of since the end of the war. Certainly 
this bill will not help all of them. In fact it may only help a few of 
them. But I feel very strongly that the bill is worthwhile even if it 
only brings one soldier home to his family after all of these years.
  I urge you to vote for the ``Bring Them Home Alive Act of 2000.''

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