[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 157 (Thursday, December 8, 2005)]
[House]
[Page H11224]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          THE CRISIS IN DARFUR

  (Mr. BLUMENAUER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. BLUMENAUER. Mr. Speaker, it is not often that we get everybody 
here in Congress to agree. But we do agree that Darfur's continuing 
nightmare is genocide. We have labeled it as such. We have all 
condemned it. The problem is we are not acting to stop it.
  The foreign ops appropriations inexplicably dropped $50 million in 
conference that would have gone to support peacekeepers from the 
African Union. We often use this opportunity here today to talk to the 
American people.
  Well, today I am talking to the 8,000 men and women on Capitol Hill 
who make things happen in Congress. Do not go home unless you ask what 
your office, your committee, your boss, your Member of Congress is 
going to do to stop the murder, the rape, the destruction and the 
violence.
  At the very least, work to restore the $50 million in the defense 
appropriations so that 7,700 African Union peace keepers can be on the 
job. 7,700 people for an area the size of Texas does not sound like too 
much. It is the least we can do as we enter the holiday season.

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