[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 53 (Wednesday, April 25, 2001)]
[House]
[Page H1563]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




           INVESTIGATION DEMANDED IN PERUVIAN PLANE SHOOTING

  (Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas. Madam Speaker, though many of us recognize 
the importance of the international drug war, enough is enough. A 
mother, a baby, now dead; the CIA involved, suggesting that they gave 
information and requested that the plane with the missionaries be 
watched.
  Well, I will say if the United States is collaborating with drug 
fighters of another nation and you have no more power than to say 
something and to be ignored, then you need to get the heck out of the 
fight. It is a tragedy that occurred.
  Madam Speaker, there are still questions as to whether or not these 
kinds of border activities even do any good. Why do we not spend our 
dollars on treatment and prevention? If nothing else, when we have a 
collaborative effort with our neighbors to the South, why is it not a 
real collaborative effort, where we work together? And if we raise 
questions of concern about our own citizens or the possibility that it 
is not a drug plane, why does not someone listen? This was an 
unnecessary loss of life. An immediate investigation of all persons who 
were involved is demanded now.
  Let me close, Madam Speaker, by saying in addition, we have got our 
young men back from China, but let us investigate the reason why they 
are holding one of our young women, who has a 5-year-old son and a 
husband here, and why are they holding religious leaders.
  We have got to do a better job of demanding the kind of human rights 
around the world that we beg for in this country. China needs to 
acknowledge that it is important to be part of the world family and to 
respect the human rights of our citizens and friends as well as their 
own.

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