[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 195 (Wednesday, December 19, 2007)]
[House]
[Pages H16838-H16839]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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                                 BURMA

  (Mr. PITTS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)

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  Mr. PITTS. Madam Speaker, the world has watched over recent months as 
the brutal dictatorship in Burma has arrested and killed Buddhist monks 
and democracy activists and as it continues to attack, rape and kill 
ethnic minorities. The House has just passed an excellent bill imposing 
further sanctions on Burma, the JADE Act.
  Amazingly, in the Senate, leading Democrats don't want the House 
version of the bill. Instead, they want to allow for cash money to go 
to the ruling regime for humanitarian purposes. Hello? Aid that goes 
through the regime does not get to the people of Burma. The rulers 
simply enrich themselves with any moneys coming into the country.
  In addition, certain Senators wish to give the Treasury Department an 
opening one could drive a Mack truck through so that Treasury could 
make any regulation it likes regarding U.S. money going into Burma. I 
hope those Senators will read the reports and look at the photos from 
Burma. The democracy activists, monks and ethnic minorities are the 
ones who should get our support, not the brutal military regime.

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