[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 90 (Wednesday, June 22, 2011)]
[House]
[Page H4376]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




           REDIRECTING RESOURCES FROM AFGHANISTAN TO AMERICA

  (Mr. CLARKE of Michigan asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. CLARKE of Michigan. Mr. Speaker, it is time for us, this 
Congress, to begin withdrawing both our troops and our tax dollars from 
Afghanistan. For now, it is important to still train the Afghan 
National Army, but we don't have to spend $100 billion a year and keep 
over 100,000 troops in Afghanistan to help keep stability in that 
country.
  We need to cut back our borrowing and our spending in Afghanistan in 
order to cut our debt and our deficit right here. But equally 
important, let's take that money that was slated for Afghanistan, and 
it is our tax dollars in the first place, and let's redirect it to the 
United States to protect Americans here at home with stronger homeland 
security. And all of the money we have spent in Afghanistan repairing 
bridges and roads and building schools and businesses, let's redirect 
this economic aid to the United States, because we need jobs here. 
Redirect our tax dollars from Afghanistan to help Americans and put 
them back to work.

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